Planning a speech and building your counter-argument
I can structure my speech around a central message and use a counter-argument to strengthen my overarching argument.
Planning a speech and building your counter-argument
I can structure my speech around a central message and use a counter-argument to strengthen my overarching argument.
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Key learning points
- Take a clear stance for or against the statement - alternative arguments should be refuted at least once in the piece.
- Contrast creates a robust sense of a writer's perspective, by demonstrating feeling towards all angles of an argument.
- Use rhetorical questions, direct address and hyperbole to expose the flaws of the opposition in an emotive way.
- Carefully sequence and vary subtle and dramatic shifts in tone, to draw reactions from the reader.
Keywords
Authorial voice - the language a writer uses to communicate their perspective- this could be serious, hopeful or fun etc.
Rhetorical question - questions posed for effect, not requiring an answer, to emphasise a point
Refute - to prove something wrong or untrue
Hyperbole - exaggerated claims not meant to be taken literally, used for emphasis
Direct address - speaking directly to the audience using 'you' to engage and involve them in the message
Common misconception
Refuting counter-arguments is enough to create an impact.
Although it is good practice to refute counter-arguments, we can also use language devices when we do so to make them even more powerful.
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