I often have students play devil's advocate when it comes to opposing views, but one student took a blog I found in opposition to her argument when she was wondering if her topic was controversial. She then quoted each opposing view, then added notes for rebuttals.
These are online students. I ask them to give me a rough draft of the Toulmin Method, then write scaffold paragraphs for each of those parts.
This same student thought of the claim, qualifier, and enthymeme as thesis statement. She wrote a wonderful introduction out of this!
Overall, these are changes in strategy I will use in the future.
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