PREVIEWING ARGUMENT PART I: Read the excerpt below and use the guiding questions to help preview the argument made by the author.

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You express a great deal of anxiety over our willingness to break laws. This is certainly a legitimate concern. Since we so diligently urge people to obey the Supreme Court's decision of 1954 outlawing segregation in the public schools, at first glance it may seem rather paradoxical for us consciously to break laws. One may well ask: "How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others?" The answer lies in the fact that there are two types of laws: just and unjust. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that "an unjust law is no law at all."

1.What topic will you be reading about?
2.What type of text will you be reading?
3.What can you infer about the author?

4.What is the author’s argument?
5.How does the author use rhetoric to develop your understanding of the argument?
6.What does the language tell you about the author?