A. Mirasol’s teacher asked her to rewrite, telling her that he had failed to engage with
Smith’s argument in the first draft. Here is an excerpt from Marisol’s less-than-
successful rewrite…
… Smith says on p.9, “The truth of causal determinism having been established by this
argument from elimination, we shall move on to prove incompatibilism.” Smith then says that
the source of an agent’s actions is some event that occurred before he was even born. If an
event occurred before someone was born, it cannot be a product of his choices. Therefore,
incompatibilism is true. On p.10, Smith addresses the objection that…

Questions:
1. Identify at least 3 things that Marisol fail in establishing her argument/thesis.
2. Write 3 recommendations for Marisol to improve her argument/thesis.

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