English VIII, Group _________ Unit 3 –argumentative essay pre-writing

Name __________________________________________ Date ______________

 After reading the argumentative essay project description, use this document to think of and develop 3 potential ideas for
your argumentative essay.
 Developing the ideas will help you decide if the topics are appropriate for this project and which of your ideas is the best
one to develop in an argumentative essay.
 Think of controversial or problematic topics related to families or to work or job trends. What are areas of controversy in
your field of study?
 Remember the topics that are forbidden. They are forbidden because they are lazy, cliched ideas.

POTENTIAL TOPIC #1
1. What is the topic you’re going to write your essay about?
The dangers of the artificial intelligence

2. What is the controversy within the topic?

Some people think that AI are a danger technology and say that this will ben controlled, but other say that we need to improve this
technology in favor to the humanity

3. What is the basic, fundamental, central question to this controversy? Remember that this question must be constructed as a
yes/no question.
Will the machines replace us?

4. What are the arguments in favor of the controversy?

People say that advances in automatization fields can made obsolete the human aspect in a very high industries, for example works
like
5. What are the arguments against the controversy?
The develop of the IA can help the world and is making new jobs
The AI will improve and help humans to do their work

6. What is your position on this controversy? Write your position in a complete sentence.
The AI and the fields like machine learning can help us to do a better work, and is normal that this replace many works, but new ones
appear related whit that, because that I really think that this is a very important technology for us.
The answer to question 6 should be the thesis statement for your argumentative essay. If this isn’t strong, you’ll never be able to
write a good essay.

POTENTIAL TOPIC #2
1. What is the topic you’re going to write your essay about?
the abandonment of a parent, and the implications in the child life
2. What is the controversy within the topic?
Its common hear that one person never know his father or mother, and think that their personalities are not been influence by that,
but in real, this dramatic success is an important factor in the build of the personality.
3. What is the basic, fundamental, central question to this controversy? Remember that this question must be constructed as a
yes/no question.
Has an abandon of a parent a negative effect in the children?

4. What are the arguments in favor of the controversy?

Its normal that the people that never know their father for example say, “I never needed his help”.
Or people say that is not significative, was only a normal difficult.

5. What are the arguments against the controversy?

The psychological shortcomings are the same, or very related, this person has a similar behavior in some specific situations that
show how deep is the abandon of a parent.

6. What is your position on this controversy? Write your position in a complete sentence.
The abandon of a parent is a very complicated situation that generate the necessity to find information in other places, information
that should be provided for the parents.

The answer to question 6 should be the thesis statement for your argumentative essay. If this isn’t strong, you’ll never be able to
write a good essay.

POTENTIAL TOPIC #3
1. What is the topic you’re going to write your essay about?
The convivence whit an Alzheimer patient.
2. What is the controversy within the topic?

3. What is the basic, fundamental, central question to this controversy? Remember that this question must be constructed as a
yes/no question.

4. What are the arguments in favor of the controversy?

5. What are the arguments against the controversy?

6. What is your position on this controversy? Write your position in a complete sentence.

The answer to question 6 should be the thesis statement for your argumentative essay. If this isn’t strong, you’ll never be able to
write a good essay.
After you have shared your pre-writing with a partner and gotten feedback, answer the following questions:

Which of your ideas is most interesting to you? Why?

Which of your ideas can most easily be developed into an argumentative essay? Why?

Develop this idea using the basic structure of an argumentative essay.

topic
Thesis Statement- Your position on the controversy in a full sentence

Your first argument to defend your position

Your second argument to defend your position

The counter argument- the argument made by people who have the opposite position as you do