Teaching Argument Writing with Frankenstories

How broad or narrow do you want the argument to be?

• Do you want players to make a specific, implementation-type argument?
• Or do you want players to make a general, policy-type argument?

It makes a difference!

• Specific prompts will produce more grounded, concrete, physical arguments.
• General prompts will produce broader, policy-oriented, system-level arguments.

In the argument-related topics in the Frankenstories prompt library, we provide a specific and a general version of each prompt, phrased along the lines of:

• Specific: "Make an argument about this specific situation."
• General: "Make an argument about this general trend."