College Composition / Unit 17 CMP 0411 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Weak Support
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The idea
Support is weak when it is irrelevant, insufficient, unrepresentative or from a source readers will not trust.
In practice
A single online comment offered as proof of public opinion is weak on several counts at once.
Where people slip
Weak evidence can hurt an argument more than no evidence, because it signals that nothing stronger was found.
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