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Assessing Arguments

The document discusses various claims and arguments regarding topics such as SUVs, education, and media, evaluating their verifiability and strength. It highlights the subjective nature of some claims, such as opinions on Ronald Reagan's charisma and the effectiveness of school uniforms. Additionally, it addresses the impact of technology on issues like plagiarism and the future of print newspapers.

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Assessing Arguments

The document discusses various claims and arguments regarding topics such as SUVs, education, and media, evaluating their verifiability and strength. It highlights the subjective nature of some claims, such as opinions on Ronald Reagan's charisma and the effectiveness of school uniforms. Additionally, it addresses the impact of technology on issues like plagiarism and the future of print newspapers.

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Owners of SUVs should be required to pay an energy surcharge since they require more
energy.
This is argumentative because it does not contain a strong enough opinion and sounds
more like a simple statement that could be easily proven wrong. Not a lot of SUV owners would
agree on this idea due to the fact that this involves an increase in money. This overall could lead
to an argument about what's fair and what's not.
2. Charter schools are an alternative to public schools.
Charter schools provide a more effective educational environment then the common
traditional schools.
This is very verifiable because this claim only describes what chart charter schools are
and what they can do. It doesn’t like any opinion about anything.
3. Ronald Reagan was the most charismatic president of the twentieth century because he
upheld many ideas for the future.
This is arguable because this claim does not have a strong enough personal opinion in
the claim, which the only keyword is, “charismatic”. This person believes in the president
to be charismatic which others could believe the total complete opposite based on their
personal experiences. In fact, he did create many types of ideas for the future of
America which not really a lot of Presidents do often. It would be better for this claim to
have a little bit of background support of what he did and how he did and could be
deeply explained and proven more complexly.
4. Requiring students to wear uniforms improves school spirit.
This is an arguable claim due to the fact that most people, primarily students, don’t
believe in this for they have their own personal style and they won’t always be happy with
wearing uniforms quite everyday. Dresscode, the word itself, is one of the most arguable topics
when it comes against the districts and the students. The opinion in this is that it states that it
improves school spirit, but there are many other bigger factors to make up school spirit than just
uniforma which students who are against this would say.
5. The terms global warming and climate change describe different perspectives on this
complex issue.
The term “global warming” is more effective in motivating action than “climate change,”
as it conveys a sense of urgency.
I believe this is too easily verifiable because this explains the topic of climate change in a
more climate weather terminology than making a claim.,
6. Students graduating from college today can expect to have more debt than any previous
generation.
This is a strong argument because she expresses her own opinions and makes it very
much specific by stating how students who graduate from college now have more debt from the
previous generations. She could include information factors such as statistics of the economy.
7. People who read novels are more likely to attend sports events and movies than those
who do not.
People who read novels are more entertained by the social activities than people who
don’t read, which gives a stronger connection between the reading and socially incited
world.
This is easily verifiable because opposed readers could just do simple research about
different types of statistics to prove them wrong or just go up to people who don’t read
and ask them what their favorite things to do in their free time is and go from there.
8. Print newspapers will not survive another decade.
This is in fact arguable because this claim predicts the future of the print media, which
could only be decided by the opinions of the press and the social trends in many forms
of media.
9. The competition among countries to become a site for the Olympic Games is fierce.
The fierce competition among countries to host the Olympic Games does more damage than
greatness by prioritizing the legacy rather than the horrible impact on the people themselves.
This claim is to easily verifiable because this “claim” is commonly known from people
around the world and the Olympic Games are known to be played by strong, fierce, and
strong people and countries who mostly part-take in this will be known stereotypically to
be fierce and it's only supported by observable facts.
10. Plagiarism is a serious problem in today's schools.
The increase in plagiarism in today’s schools is a direct result of internet access to
academic jeopardy.
This is far too easily verifiable because this statement is only accepted by many and may
possibly no longer relate to the strengthening argument.

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