See It in Practice
Now that you have learned about additional options for structuring and organizing arguments, it’s time to visit our student to see what decisions she has made about the structure of her argument. In this...
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Time to Write
It’s your turn now to develop an outline for your essay. Which argumentative purpose works best for your assignment, topic, and writing situation? You may want to get feedback from your professor and classmates...
Experience
Chances are, if you have chosen an issue to write about for your argumentative essay, you have chosen a topic that means something to you. With this in mind, you may have had personal experience related...
Primary Sources
When you use source material outside of your own experience, you’re using either primary or secondary sources. Primary sources are sources that were created or written during the time period in which they reference and...
Secondary Sources
When you’re searching for secondary source material to support your claims, you want to keep some basic ideas in mind: Your source material should be relevant to your content. Your source material should be credible,...
Source Integration
Just as with any type of essay, when you write an argumentative essay, you want to integrate your sources effectively. This means you want to think about the different ways you integrate your sources (paraphrasing,...
Analyze This
When you use sources to support your claims in your argument, you certainly have a lot of options to consider. Now that you have learned about those options and how you can use those...
See It in Practice
Now that you have learned about the different ways you can use evidence in your argument, it’s a good time to see how our student applies this information to her process. In this video,...
Time to Write
It’s your turn now to wrap up your research process and start thinking about how you’ll use sources and which sources you’ll use. Remember, you want to ensure you have quality sources, but those...
Straw Man Fallacy
A straw man fallacy occurs when someone distorts or exaggerates another person’s argument, and then attacks the distorted version of the argument instead of refuting the original point. By using a straw man, someone...