Here are the three editorials you will choose from for your second paper, a rebuttal argument:
"In support of fracking: the facts and the science" by Thomas Kurth, Houston Chronicle
"Huck Finn: Censorship? Sure it is, but changes to 'Huckleberry Finn' are warranted," The Lufkin Daily News
"Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior" by Amy Chua, Wall Street Journal
Read all three articles carefully and choose the one with which you have the strongest disagreement--or the one that you think is the weakest argument. In your paper, you will provide a careful refutation of the argument, so it's important that you print, read, and think about it thoroughly.
I've tried to provide a range of recent topics and points of view that students will be likely to take issue with. But if you're not interested in rebutting any of these editorials, you may choose your own. If you take this path, you must choose an editorial published in 2011 and you must bring it to my office hours (MWF 10 to 11:30) by Friday, February 25 for my approval.
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