How effectively does your selected author use evidence? Does the evidence make the premises and conclusions of the argument strong? Is the evidence accurate, relevant, representative, and sufficient enough to prove the point? What is the source of the evidence? What authorities are cited to support the premises? Are these authorities reliable and credible? Has the evidence been manipulated in questionable ways?

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Choose one of the following options as you discuss the flawed aspect:

How effectively does your selected author use evidence? Does the evidence make the premises and conclusions of the argument strong? Is the evidence accurate, relevant, representative, and sufficient enough to prove the point? What is the source of the evidence? What authorities are cited to support the premises? Are these authorities reliable and credible? Has the evidence been manipulated in questionable ways?

How does your selected author engage or fail to engage a specific community in his paper? How does the writer treat the targeted community as he or she develops his paper?

What is your argument about his use of diction, imagery and tone? and 2) what do these have in common besides being types of rhetorical devices? You want a paper that has paragraphs that connect to one another via a carefully crafted structure.

Who is your audience for this paper, besides me—the teacher?

What is your purpose in analyzing someone else’s argument?