Question

Read the prompt and claim below. Then write a body paragraph in response to the prompt and claim that contains a topic sentence, offers at least one piece of supporting evidence from the list provided, introduces and addresses the counterclaim provided, and ends with a concluding sentence.

Prompt:
Your school district is considering removing handwriting and cursive classes from its school curriculum. Would you be in favor of such a policy?

Claim:
Our district should not eliminate cursive classes from its curriculum.

Paragraph topic:
Cursive can connect students to the past.

Evidence:

According to Johnson Kipling, professor of linguistics at Upton State University, "writing in cursive teaches reading cursive, and many of the foundational documents of our country are written in cursive, as are other historical documents. Looking at a typed transcript of these documents disconnects students from truly understanding them as part of history. One of history's central lessons is that times change and things evolve."
A poll of our state's high school history and government teachers revealed that almost 90 percent of them use primary-source historical documents written in cursive on a regular basis.
Counterclaim:
Students can just look at typed versions of historical documents to get the same information.

Answer 1

One reason why we shouldn't eliminate cursive from our schools curriculum is because cursive can connect students to the past. One example of this is that, due to most of the nation's important documents being written in cursive, this shows how continuing to teach cursive in our schools curriculum would help students.

Step-by-step explanation:

i think this will do

Answer 2

First you would want to start this off by restating your paragraph topic and claim for example you could use “one reason why we shouldn't eliminate cursive from our schools curriculum is because cursive can connect students to the past.” Then you would want to use the race format (specifically the c/cite evidence) to implement your evidence and then of course you would want to explain your evidence. One example of explaining your evidence could be. “due to most of the nations important documents being written in cursive this shows how continuing to teach cursive in our schools curriculum would help students.” Then a way to counter the counter claim could be by using the reasoning that there is not always going to be a typed version of the document at all or there is not going to be a typed version of the document readily available.

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