If you want your writing to establish a common ground with the reader and make your overall argument stronger, you should order your arguments from
A. negative to positive.
B. most important to least important.
C. least controversial to most controversial.
D. least important to most important.
E. positive to negative.
A. negative to positive.
Ordering arguments from negative to positive is a strategy that establishes a common ground with your reader and puts the positive argument last, which makes it stronger.
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