I need to do polemic assignment form a newspaper editorial or an excerpt from a longer editorial, approximately 400 - 700 words, and critique its arguments point by point.
You must disagree with (not personally disagree; that's your business) with the editorial that you have chosen. It is helpful to pretend that you are writing to someone who disagrees with you and who agrees with the article you have chosen to critique. You are explaining why the article fails to prove its case. Your own experience and opinions only become relevant in refuting one of the article's points. Thus the assignment is somewhat akin to cross-examination in a debate.
Although I want you to address every part of the editorial, you do
not have to disagree with every assertion the author makes. It can be
quite helpful to break down paragraphs into standard form arguments, but
one of the easiest ways to do poorly on the polemic assignment is to
give an almost mathematical analyses of each each premise and