In the "Digital Literacies" section of your textbook Writing Arguments, read Nancy Herther’s “Digital Natives and Immigrants: What Brain Research Tells Us” and Dana Fleming’s “Youthful Indiscretions: Should Colleges Protect Social Network Users from Themselves and Others?"

Choose one essay and locate the author’s claim or thesis statement. What reasons are offered to support that claim?
How does the author appeal to reason, ethics and emotion?
What arguments can you identify that counter the author’s claims?

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In the "Digital Literacies" section of your textbook Writing Arguments, read Nancy Herther’s “Digital Natives and Immigrants: What Brain Research Tells Us” and Dana Fleming’s “Youthful Indiscretions: Should Colleges Protect Social Network Users from Themselves and Others?"

Choose one essay and locate the author’s claim or thesis statement. What reasons are offered to support that claim?  
How does the author appeal to reason, ethics and emotion?  
What arguments can you identify that counter the author’s claims?