For your final research paper, it will be helpful to include counter-arguments. Did Christensen use any counterarguments in his article? Were they needed to advance his thesis? AIDS in Africa: Dying by the numbers.

Answer 1

To understand counter-arguments and how they're used, you need to understand how arguments are constructed. Here are some sites to help you:

http://www.powa.org/argumentative-essays/

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/workshops/pp/argument.PPT (A PowerPoint presentation to watch)

http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/argument.html

http://www.cdtl.nus.edu.sg/success/sl29.htm

http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~wricntr/documents/Counterarg.html