Sentences with phrase «make written arguments»

Students will be expected to make written arguments using specific evidence from reading assignments, often pulling together examples from multiple texts.

Not exact matches

«The US government acted as police force (identifying the foreign government's crime), prosecutor (making the legal arguments), jury (ruling on the evidence), and judge (sentencing the foreigner to US retaliatory punishment),» Chad Bown, a senior fellow at the pro-free trade Peterson Institute for International Economics, wrote in a memo about Section 301's history earlier in August.

Even among her Fed peers, she stands out as a nerd: «As Fed officials deliberated last April about how long to keep interest rates low, Ms. Yellen delivered a 20 - page speech, with 18 footnotes and 15 charts, making the argument that rates should stay low until 2015 or later,» writes WSJ Fed correspondent Jon Hilsenrath.

«I believe it is a matter of fundamental fairness that the American people be allowed to see both sides of the argument and make their own judgment,» Schumer wrote in a letter to the president released on Sunday.

Byfield's blog post made a powerful argument for why Bill 24 is necessary to protect LGBTQ students, wrote Postmedia columnist Graham Thomson.

You might want to re-read what Ted M. initially posted, and then your responses... to me at least... what you wrote was not an isomorphic argument that in any way refuted Ted's, and i think - Ace made reference to that as well as - Ted.

Regarding the Confederacy, I recently wrote a book on the last major initiative in 1861 to avert the Civil War — the Washington Peace Conference — where both sides extensively made their arguments.

I also want to add, that I only wrote twice... my husband used my laptop to make his argument about the Irvings... those are not my words.

Werner Jaeger, who has written the classic history of the idea of paideia, [2] pointed out in a later book on Early Christianity and Greek Paideia that Clement not only uses literary forms and types of argument calculated to sway people formed by paideia but, beyond that, he explicitly praises paideia in such a way as to make it clear that his entire epistle is to be taken «as an act of Christian education.»

Lewis» apologetic works, writes Jacobs, «presuppose, and rarely make any argument for, the criteria for rationality.»

When given a chance to pray before our colleagues, we often feel the need to cover every cause, name every country, and in a marathon of self - righteousness, write every last vestige of prayerfulness out of prayer by making it not a moment to confess dependence and gratitude, but the closing argument of a self - nominated saint.

It seems that maybe what John, Peter, James, and Jude did was go to a professionally trained letter writer and provided them with the basic ideas, arguments, and points they wanted to make in their letter, and then let the professional letter writer compose the letter according to the letter writing standards of that day.

Christians, then, should make their arguments carefully, winsomely, graciously, and firmly, in the hope that «the law written on the heart» will overcome emotional prejudice, intellectual laziness, and moral compromise.

To say that the claims that are based off of a book were created after the book was first written is just stupid (maybe your argument isn't what you typed and you made an error in trying to convey your thoughts).

John Eppstein, writing The Catholic Tradition of the Law of Nations between the World Wars, argues that proportionality and last resort are to be found in the arguments of the Neoscholastics, but the texts he cites do not clearly make the case.

Well, FAITH, there's the problem... that gibberish in the bible was just made up by «some guy» to keep the peasants behaving in a manner that whomever wrote it thought was a good way to behave... some of those guys were wise, yes, and there are benefits to following some of the «guidelines» set forth in the Bible... but it's a circular argument to use the Bible as a reason to have faith, because you have to first BELIEVE in the deity, THEN believe that the deity inspired the writings, THEN you can take the writings as «truth»... I'm two steps back, not believing in the deity at all (Yay, Atheists!

You may be able to make an argument that Paul and some of the other disciples wrote to some of the early churches as a collective, but even these writings focused on individual responsibilty.

He writes,» [Whitehead's] argument then makes the second and crucial point that this sense of reality which underlies all our experience comprises infinitely more than is sometimes supposed....

Not only should Palin not have released this crap on an unsuspecting public, but I think one can make a cogent argument that she doesn't even have the right to write this crap.

In this context, it is difficult to make the familiar Euro - American argument that the Bible was clearly written for a totally alien society with which modems could scarcely identify, and so its detailed moral laws can not be applied in the contemporary world.

Growing out of a series of books and essays Kekes has written over the last several years - on the nature of moral argument, the problem of evil, and the conflictual goods and evils that make up life as we know it - Against Liberalism marks the author's most explicit broadside against liberal theory to date.

The fact that you can't figure out how to write «psychiatrists» or even «shrinks», but have to use the pathetic «physic», which doesn't make any sense at all, is evidence that you're not bright enough to make a cogent argument against gay marriage.

When Newman came to write his Essay on the Development of Doctrine, he makes the point that «the absolute need of a spiritual authority is at present the strongest argument in favour of its supply.»

However, in spring 2005, when Raymond Bradley, an atheist in Editorial Board for The Open Society journal, wrote an open letter to Flew accusing him of not «check [ing] the veracity of [Schroeder's] claims before swallowing them whole,» Flew strongly responded to that charge in a letter published in the same journal in summer 2006, describing the content of Bradley's letter «extraordinary offensive» and the accusation made by him as an «egregiously offensive charge»; he also implied that Bradley was a «secularist bigot,» and suggested that he should follow Socrates's advice (as scripted in Plato's Republic) of «follow [ing] the argument wherever it leads.»

I was hoping to stretch this out and make a much longer argument, but that's about all you need to write.

I unfortunately watched the match... and I'm still awe struck how the so - called «the analyzer» still makes excuses for Wenger and Arsenal with long boring and baseless arguments... when the writing is clearly on the wall.

haha i understand your arguments but you just made a small mistake ^ ^ he wrote 30k - 50k MORE, meaning that an offer which is higher than the offer from LC by that amount should be enough motivation for a lot of the players and i do nt disagree with him ^ ^

@Good Loser — I've actually tried to win this argument u are making on this blog, but one Shard (who writes quite excellently) and some others kept disagreeing with parallel and counter arguments.

Ian Brownlie and Tom Franck made such arguments (though Anthea Roberts has written an essay disagreeing) It may be argued that providing advance legal authorization is more likely to encourage such action whereas what we want is to be very restrictive with regard to permissible uses of force but that in cases of genuine need the international community will excuse and not condemn action.

«I want to be clear about what's happening: rather than go before the members of our State Committee this weekend and make an argument as to why he deserves our endorsement, Governor Cuomo has instead chosen to respond the only way he knows how: retaliating with bullying and threats,» Lipton wrote.»

«The left must avoid the trap of countering an argument about less state by making a case for more state,» he writes.

In light of reports in today's Albany Times Union that a 10th grade teacher at Albany High School asked students to make a persuasive argument blaming Jews for the problems of Nazi Germany as part of a writing assignment, Councilman David G. Greenfield is calling on the school district to immediately terminate the teacher in question.

Samuel Russell writes: «Putland's analysis in that blog post relies on the US constitution to make an argument in relation to Australia...»

«Whether Mr. Silver engaged in extramarital affairs does not make it more or less likely, for instance, that he used his official position to obtain referrals from real - estate developers,» they said in written arguments.

«The commissioner wrote a 33 - page decision in which she went through and analyzed and knocked down all the various arguments he made.»

«We have neither heard nor received written testimony from the leadership of either the Assembly or Senate making an institutional argument for a salary increase,» Cuomo appointee Fran Reiter said in a meeting of the commission last week.

This is why he says that his book, written for a lay audience, inevitably contains «only a shadow of the argument I would like to make».

«The argument can no longer be made that Match is a cheap asset, but we still believe that upside remains,» Thill wrote.

I love film criticism and I love reading negative reviews if the author makes compelling and well written arguments.

The teacher should then explain how a case makes its way to the USSC Court and what an attorney needs to do to prepare for his / her USSC presentation (write a brief and prepare an oral argument)

Welebob says her students entered an STScI contest in which they had to decide which direction Hubble should be pointed, make a collage of telescope images showing their choice, and submit a persuasive argument for their choice in written or video form.

The teacher should think through what the project requires students to do, both in terms of academic tasks (such as writing an editorial, creating a poster, summarizing an argument) and in terms of the process of completing the project (discussing ideas and making choices in a group, giving constructive feedback on others» work, or making an oral presentation).

Alternatively, students could use it to map out how you're going to write out an essay, allowing you to figure out what topics you need to cover, what headings you need, what arguments you'll make, and what papers and reading you'll use to back them.

Morgan has written a letter to members of the Teacher and Head teacher Union Rountable saying that the Department for Education (DfE) wants to: continue to listen carefully to the arguments that unions are making; move forward in a constructive way and continue discussions on the issues the unions have raised with her; and have a conversation about a new series of talks to allow greater depth on certain topics (i.e. pay, conditions, workload and qualifications).

Despite the clear association of Huntington's creed with Anglo - Protestants, he is careful to make it clear that he does not want to resuscitate race and ethnicity as the foundation of America's identity; he writes that his argument is «for the importance of Anglo - Protestant culture, not Anglo - Protestant people.»

Not the joy - killing machines ruining childhood, as so many critics have portrayed standardized tests, but true measures of whether children were learning the key skills they would need as grown - ups: how to think critically, solve problems, make a convincing argument, and write a coherent paragraph.

Hattie's argument makes perfect sense to me, and it is edifying to realize that teachers» gut instincts (e.g. better feedback helps students write better) are actually supported by big data.

An op - ed recently published in the Cap Times, written by a MMSD educator, makes a compelling argument for reducing class sizes.

These include nonfiction writing, citing evidence and making arguments, and comprehending «complex texts» to prepare students for life after high school.

Claims the lawsuit would harm public schools were purely «speculative,» Reynolds wrote, siding with arguments made by lawyers for the state and parents who intervened in the case.