You must bring up and then counter-argue at least one significant point that contradicts or challenges your views.

For this essay, you will need a minimum of three outside sources, and one of those must be a source that essentially disagrees with your position or offers an opposing view on the issue. You must bring up and then counter-argue at least one significant point that contradicts or challenges your views. In other words, you will need to bring up a possible objection to your ideas and then explain what your response is to those ideas: do you think they are just wrong? or are they maybe right but not important? are they maybe right and even somewhat important but you still think your ideas overall make more sense? For example, if I was arguing that we should continue to encourage everyone to go to college, I might bring up the counter-argument that only about half the people who start college ever finish. My response to this would be to accept that this is true (because, well, it is true) but to point out that there are many reasons a student might drop out of college and it doesn’t always mean they shouldn’t have even attempted it. Maybe colleges need to do a better job of helping students succeed or maybe we need better financial aid to help them, but telling them to not even try college would be a bad idea.