defensible

Examples of defensible in the following topics:

• Chicago/Turabian: Block Quotations

  • Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not YET sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favour; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom.

• Introduction to the Thesis Statement

  • Another way to introduce a defensible thesis statement is to refine an already existing idea: take a generally accepted conclusion and stretch it further.

• Modes of Persuasion: Ethos, Pathos, and Logos

  • You're the defense attorney.

• Techniques for Acknowledging Opposing Views

  • It's good for us to laugh at ourselves, and when we do so, we can relax our defenses and open up to the opposing argument.