Select the statement that best describes how the author's point of view develops over the course of the text. The author starts out the text by championing the Human Genome Project, but by the end of the text, the author seems confused by the entire idea of the project.

The author starts out the text with a skeptical view of the Human Genome Project but slowly builds a stronger positive opinion of it as the text progresses.

The author starts out the text by championing the Human Genome Project and then car

Refute it, showing why it is mistaken—an apparent but not real problem; acknowledge its validity or plausibility, but suggest why on balance it's relatively less important or less likely than what you propose, and thus doesn't overturn it; concede its force and complicate your idea accordingly—restate your thesis in a more exact, qualified, or nuanced way that takes account of the objection, or start a new section in which you consider your topic in light of it. this will work if the counterargument concerns only an aspect of your argument; if it undermines your whole case, you need a new thesis.