Thursday, September 16, 2010

Some terms you might find useful in the next 24 hours

Defend: To support a claim, assertion, or idea, using evidence from a text, personal experience, history, contemporary news or politics, or popular culture.

Challenge: To refute a claim, assertion, or idea, using evidence.

Qualify: To amend, edit, or alter a claim, assertion, or idea, using evidence. When you qualify a claim, you may defend one part of the claim while refuting part of the same argument, or you may alter the language of the claim to make it more accurate.

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