Estrella, Ariel2022-09-202022-09-202021https://hdl.handle.net/1813/111846Students strengthen their argumentative skills by answering the same prompt from two different perspectives. Students are then provided questions for a guided reflection on the process. This activity promotes a deeper reading comprehension by arguing for both sides of a dialectic. In doing so, students unveil a text’s contradictions, wordplay, and ambiguities. This assignment can be used to develop a habit of expecting counterarguments and/or to generate an in-class discussion about craft.enAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Internationalwriting exercisesdialecticcounterargumentargumentreading comprehensionother