State your thesis or hypothesis completely. Outline your thesis in Toulmin terms:
Despite the negative definition, hacking can be considered both unethical and ethical.
-- Claim: Hacking can be ethical.
-- Reason(s): There are white-hat hackers who contributed so much to our society.
-- Warrant(s): Hacking can be a good thing since there are white-hat hackers.
Explain why this argument of definition deserves attention. What is at stake? Why is it important for your readers to consider?
When seeing the word “hacker”, the audience automatically picks up the negative vibe. Truth is, not all hackers are bad. The common definition of is that this bad “hacker” gets unauthorized access to someone else’s device. It is this definition that risk ruining …show more content…
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The essay will introduce with a formal definition, “what you find in dictionaries,” to start the essay (Lunsford, 2013). Later on, the formal definition can be argued with an operational definition because the definition of “hack” changes depending on the conditions.
Works Cited

Lunsford, Andrea A., and John J Ruszkiewicz. Everything’s an argument. Boston, MA, Bedford/St.Martin’s,