Question

Read a draft paragraph from an argumentative essay.

Using the bomb saved lives by bringing a quick end to a war that might have gone on for years longer. It is impossible to put a number on how many more deaths the continuing war might have caused, but there are indications. Millions had already died in the Pacific theater. Whenever US troops invaded an island, they knew the fight was to the death. In the battle for Okinawa alone, there had been almost 50,000 US casualties, while Japan had suffered some 90,000 military deaths and at least 100,000 civilian deaths. Of course, radiation continued to cause illness, misery, and death long after the bomb had been dropped.

How should the author revise this paragraph?

a. by using more conversational sentences
b. by placing a topic sentence at the beginning
c. by providing details and statistics as evidence
d. by moving and refuting the counterclaim at the end

Answer 1

d. by moving and refuting the counterclaim at the end

Step-by-step explanation:

According to the given draft paragraph from an argumentative essay, the narrator talks about the effect of the World War and tries to justify the use of the hydrogen bomb on Japan which led to their unconditional surrender by saying that it helped end the war quickly and save more lives.

However, at the end, he just says that the effects of the radiation were still there, without any preamble or prior claim

The author should revise the paragraph by moving and refuting the counterclaim at the end. This is because, they are not a suitable conclusion to the draft paragraph.