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Exercise 1-2B: Argument Prewriting

To generate ideas that you can use to create an argument with the XYZ model (described on p.108), respond to the following prompts:
  • List three general ideas or observations that you have about your topic
  • List three assumptions that you believe other readers might make about your topic
  • List three ways in which your initial reading or research about the topic that might challenge these assumptions
  • List three ideas that you might want to prove in your topic?

Now, using these options you generated, apply the XYZ approach outlined above to create a working argument.