What does opposing Viewpoint mean? When analysing newspaper article?

Question

Hello, I have a question about my english homework. We have to find two newspaper articles and answers questions about them.
First question, Does the author recognise a viewpoint that opposes his or her own? If so, what is it?
Second question, Is that viewpoint presented objectively or emotionally? List some quotations to support your claim.
I didn't understand the questions if you can please explain it.
Thank You

Answer 1

You need to find an article that expresses the writers opinion / viewpoint on a particular subject.  That may be almost anything from "Common core math is a wonderful thing" to "Congress and senate should be subject to term limits."

 

The question you need to answer is whether the author not only expresses his own view on the subject, but also that of those who do not agree with him (opposing viewpoint).  For the examples given the opposing viewpoints are obvious:  "Common core math is not effective" and "Congress and senate should not be subject to term limits."

 

The second question is whether the author discusses those opposing views "objectively" by rebutting with facts, statistics, and logic or "emotionally" simply by attacking them with his own views rather than using said facts and statistical data.

Answer 2

An opposing viewpoint is a viewpoint that's the opposite of your own.  Suppose that the article is about making fast food illegal.  The author of the article you're reading says that they should make it illegal.  The opposing viewpoint would be one that says that they shouldn't make it illegal.

 

If your author does admit that there is the group that believes that fast food should remain legal, how does he do it?  Does he call them stupid, or sound angry in his viewpoint about it?  That's emotionally.

 

...Or does he say that there is an opposite view of it, and just sticks to the facts?  That's objectively.

 

So that's what it's about.  Find two articles about something like gun control, or if Trump should be President, or something like that and there author should say what he thinks and tell what other people think.