Analysis of a Letter to the Editor of The New York Times

Find a letter to the editor in the New York Times, LA Times, or Wall Street Journal. Use the Toulmin Argument to analyze the letter. Suggest revisions and offer additional evidence.

Explain why you chose the topic you did and whether what you believed to be accurate about that topic turned out to be proven true or false. Create a list of 3 commonly believed conspiracy theories. Provide an argument of definition about a term that has suddenly become culturally significant or recently changed in some important way. Either defend the way the term has come to be defined or raise questions about its appropriateness, offensiveness, inaccuracy, and so on.