Topic Sentence: Knowing how to argue is a useful skill.
For this exercise, you’ll have to choose the main points. Choose the main points from the passage in the selection of sentences/phrases below.
1. “We must use it on ourselves in order to arrive at decisions”
2. “members of the local PTA”
3. “we use it with others”
4. “drafting a letter to the editor of our hometown paper”
5. “Our ability . . . will allow us to make some difference in public life”
6. “we are condemned to sit on the sidelines”
7. “saving whales”
Once you’ve identified the main points in the passage you can check your answers here. Your next step will be to draft a summary based on the main points that you’ve chosen.
Exercise I: Choose the Main Points (Answers)
In addition to the topic sentence, numbers 1, 3, and 5 represent the more important points in this paragraph.
Exercise II: Sample Summary
The ability to argue is valuable because we use it for so many reasons: both to make choices for ourselves and to persuade others. Without this ability to argue we lose our power to affect change.
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