The best test of an argument is the argument's ability to convince someone with an opposing viewpoint.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
The opposing viewpoint which makes an argument interesting and provoking in a sense, do makes the reader think a lot and, usually gets provoked and finds something new in it. Such arguments however, if not backed by cogent analysis and valid reason, fails to have a lasting impact on its reader and thus is only mercurial in nature. The very basis of an argument is the ability to convince its reader by presenting and evaluating sound reasons for the position it takes. To use the contrasting or opposing viewpoint may look attractive tool prima facie, but if the author just uses it to validate i...
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Sentence: The opposing viewpoint which makes an argument interesting and provoking in a sense, do makes the reader think a lot and, usually gets provoked and finds something new in it.
Description: The fragment do makes the is rare
Suggestion: Possible agreement error: Replace makes with verb, base: uninflected present, imperative or infinitive
Sentence: Subtlety should be the main tool for using the opposing viewpoint in an argument and thus making reader form the opinion, rather than making him read it which can lead to reader's unrest as he is forced to reconcile with the argument.
Description: The fragment reader form the is rare
Suggestion: Possible agreement error: Replace form with verb, past tense
Sentence: Lastly I would say that if the arguments author does not believe in what he is arguing , how come the reader will.
Description: A noun, plural, common is not usually followed by a noun, singular, common
Suggestion: Refer to arguments and author
Sentence: Whether or not the Leader's opinion or stance was right or wrong was not the matter, till he was charismatic and articulate enough to propound his propoganda.
Error: propoganda Suggestion: propaganda
Sentence: We see, that often opposing viewpoint provokes the readers and makes him uneasy, and thus the reader tends to think over it more and thus the need for effective persuation in the argument.
Error: persuation Suggestion: persuasion
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