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Claim Qualifier

Girls have higher grades than boys which lead Most people agree that girls can have better
to a higher standard of living for girls. grades than boys.

By Teresa Chavez
Support #1 Warrant
“Previous research has shown
girls tend to study in order to understand
the materials, whereas boys emphasize Girls perform better academically than boys
performance, this is a result of how girls learn compared
This indicates a focus on the final grades. to boys.
"Mastery of the subject matter generally
produces better marks than performance
emphasis, so this could account in part for
males' lower marks than females,”

Backing: Girls have better focus in school which leads to mastery because of the fact that
the school environment encourages students to sit and think- focus.
Support #2 Warrant
Male are better at math and science but
Females have better grades overall A study was shown that by 95% females
had a bigger impact on english.
“A study from 1914- 2011, reported that the
differences in grads between girls and boys
were largest for language courses and
smallest for math and science.”

Backing: Manys would agree some females don’t slack off when it comes to school work
or get distracted by video games as male.
Rebuttal: I think that male are smarter than females because they are good at Science
and math, but also because girls can waste their time studying between jr high and
greater grade. Making them have a higher standard of living for girls.

Counter- Argument: A recent claim of a “boy crisis’” , states the males can do way better
than female since they have the advantage of knowing math and science well.
Work cited

● Girls make higher grades than boys in all school subjects, analysis finds. (2017). Phys.org.
Retrieved 15 December 2017, from
https://phys.org/news/2014-04-girls-higher-grades-boys-school.html
● Gender differences in school success: what are the roles of students’ intelligence, personality
and motivation?. (2017). Educational Research. Retrieved from
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00131881.2014.898917
● SD, V. (2017). Gender differences in scholastic achievement: a meta-analysis. - PubMed - NCBI
. Ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved 18 December 2017, from
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24773502

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