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AP English Language and Composition 10.4 Passage Drill. What is the author's strategy in paragraph 6?

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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du

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jour brought to you by reasoned debate that thing you've

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never had with your little brother All right keep gone

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reading this passage skimming it for the nine million times

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Okay the author strategy and paragraph six is to what

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And hear the potential answers Okay when you're making an

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argument it helps to have some sort of strategy just

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flailing your arms and pooping doesn't always work so what's

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the author doing well in paragraph six he uses the

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word fallacy meaning misconception The author argues that economic determinants

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have made a fallacy by assuming money drives all land

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use but pointing out some one's wrong doesn't establish common

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ground You wouldn't start a business meeting calling everyone stupid

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or uh with you and he's not really stating the

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obvious either Complex arguments about land ethics aren't exactly the

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a b c's nor is his opponent's logical argument of

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belief system belief implies faith like if we unshaken lee

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believe in the almighty power of lords en ou Finally

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the author isn't appealing to investors This is a persuasive

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essay not an ad for timeshare condos What he is

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doing is correcting someone's false claim and then laying out

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a counter argument So is the correct answer He sometimes

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reason and logic really do help and sometimes you just

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got a duct tape Your brother to a chair is 00:01:39.175 --> [endTime] going

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