Argument in Photo Essays
If you’re building your first photo essay, get ready for an exciting challenge. A photo essay is essentially a story—or in this case, an argument—that is made through mainly images instead of text. When you build an...
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Argument in Video Essays
An argumentative video essay uses video to present an argument and can be very powerful. If you think about it, the documentaries you watch are actually really long, argumentative video essays. Of course, the...
Argumentative Portfolio Letters
If you’re in a class that requires a writing portfolio, you’ll likely be required to submit a reflective cover letter that introduces your work to your audience. In some cases, that audience is your...
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...
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...