Exploring Writing 2nd Edition by John Langan

Exercise 13

The box below summarizes the five strategies for arguments. Read the statements that follow it, and in the space provided, write the letter of the kind of strategy used in each case.
A. Use Tactful, Courteous
Language
D. Grant the Merits of Differing Viewpoints
B. Point Out Common Ground
E. Rebut Differing Viewpoints
C. Acknowledge Differing
Viewpoints
_______ 1. While homeless shelters provide temporary relief, the government needs to provide needy families with more affordable housing, job training, and subsidized child care.
_______ 2. Granted, students who are self-motivated can excel in online classes, but students who don ' t have time-management skills shouldn ' t take these classes.
_______ 3. Supporters of closed or confidential adoption value the privacy of the birth mother.
_______ 4. We all want what is best for our children and believe that they should be protected.
_______ 5. College students, already financially strapped, would have trouble paying the proposed tuition increase to cover the cost of the new athletic building.