A) Discuss Any Instances of Nonargumentative Persuasion or Pseudoreasoning and Explain

question 25

Essay

A) Discuss any instances of nonargumentative persuasion or pseudoreasoning and explain any slanting techniques you find in the following passage. B) Rewrite the passage in language that is as emotively neutral as possible but still retains the same informational content.
"Some of the ill will [at Dartmouth College] has been provoked by a student-run newspaper called The Dartmouth Review. Ten of the dirty dozen who destroyed the shanties [built on the Dartmouth campus as an antiapartheid protest] reportedly work for the six-year-old weekly, a New Right mouthpiece that is run independently of the college and has the support of such leading off-campus conservatives as William
F.Buckley, Jr.Considered troublemakers by the administration and many faculty members, and disowned by former supporters such as Rep.Jack Kemp, the Review's editors traffic in outrage and offense."
-Newsweek

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