How to set up your response

How to set up your response…

First Paragraph – Introduction

-            An opening statement

-            What is your position on the argument? Are you for or against the statement? (“What do you think?”)

Second Paragraph – Defense

-               Your opinion and defense of your opinion through factual examples (“What examples support your opinion?”)

Third Paragraph – Conclusion

-                Summarize your writing

-                What was your opinion? Why do you feel that way?

-                (“This is what I think and this is why I’m right”)