Why does a good persuasive text consider conflicting viewpoints and evidence? O A persuasive text is meant to focus solely on the author's argument.

O Considering conflicting viewpoints and evidence makes the text more interesting

O The author's goal is to persuade those who may have a different point of view.

O Such viewpoints and evidence help support the author's argument

O The author's goal is to persuade those who may have a different point of view.

Explanation:

When writing a persuasive text, the main aim is to convince readers who might have differing opinions to see matters from the author's point of view and then agree with him.  

As the name implies, the readers are convinced to change their own opinions on the matter to that of the speaker or author in this context. To achieve this purpose, the author considers conflicting viewpoints and presents reasons to counter them

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.

what are the choices?