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Conversation Skill

Prompts

Response

CREATE

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• What did you observe?
• What do you see happening?
• What can we learn from this phenomenon?
• Why is this important?
• What is your claim?

• I observed that …
• I noticed …
• Look at the way that the …
• My claim is …

CLARIFY

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• What do you wonder about the observation?
• What do you think will happen?
• What caused _____ to happen?
• Which principles apply here?
• Why, How, What, When...

• I think it means …
• In other words, …
• More specifically, it is … because …
• In other words, you are saying that
• I wonder...

FORTIFY

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• Can you give an example from the: text, experiment, observation, life?
• What data do we have?
• What are the short and long-term effects?
• How does _____ support your claim?

• For example, _______
• Remember from the text/experiment/observation …
• The data shows …
• An example from real life is ...
• Strong supporting evidence is …

NEGOTIATE

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• How are the two ideas similar/different?
• Which has the strongest evidence?
• How is that evidence stronger than this evidence?
• Does the usefulness outweigh the ethical?
• Why is this controversial? What is the moral dilemma?
• What are the reasons why____supports your claim?

• _______ is strong evidence because...
• I think we can use the criteria of … because …
• That is a valid point, but …
• I think the negative of … outweighs the positives of …
• This evidence supports my claim because...