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xxxvContents8 Reconstructing America 605 1865%u20131917 Preparing to Write an Argument Essay 610 Establishing a Position 610 ACTIVITY Preparing to Write an Argument Essay 611Developing a Thesis Statement 611ACTIVITY Developing a Thesis Statement 612Introducing Your Essay 612ACTIVITY Introducing Your Essay 613Supporting Your Thesis 613 Writing Topic Sentences 613 ACTIVITY Writing Topic Sentences 614 Supporting Your Topic Sentences 614 Selecting Evidence 614ACTIVITY Brainstorming Evidence 615 Developing Commentary 615ACTIVITY Selecting Evidence and Developing Commentary 616 Acknowledging a Counterargument 616 Making Effective Rhetorical Choices 617 Writing Workshop Argument 610 Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address (nonfiction, 1865) 575 Walt Whitman, O Captain! My Captain! (poetry, 1865) 578 Mathew Brady Photography Studio, Civil War Photography (photo essay, 1861%u20131865) 580 1. Ta-Nehisi Coates, from Congressional Testimony on Reparations (nonfiction, 2019) 588 2. A. Kirsten Mullen and William A. Darity Jr., from Ten Things We Get Wrong about Reparations (nonfiction, 2021) 590 3. Americans%u2019 Views on Reparations (graphs, 2021) 594 4. Jason L. Riley, Reparations for Slavery? California%u2019s Bad Idea Catches On (nonfiction, 2023) 595 5. Keeshea Turner Roberts , Reparations Can Mitigate Wealth Inequity (nonfiction, 2023) 596 6. James E. Murray Jr. , Admissions as Slavery Reparations (nonfiction, 2024) 598 Suggestions for Writing America in Conflict: 1830%u20131865 602Conversation Would Reparations Address the Legacy of Slavery? 587Copyright %u00a9 Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishers. Distributed by Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishers. For review purposes only. Not for redistribution.