Can-Do Statements

After this module, you can...

• Put your thesis in the first two sentences and say how far it reaches
• Concede a real point without giving the argument away in the next clause
• Choose between suggests, indicates, demonstrates and establishes on purpose
• Raise the strongest objection to your own case before the reader raises it
• Name a limitation once, cleanly, instead of hedging in every sentence
• Read an op-ed or a memo and see the skeleton of the argument under the prose