Academic Writing Expressions

What subject has been more controversial for the last several decades than abortion? Since the decriminalization of abortion in 19731, thousands have been performed every year in the United States. Whether you are a pro-life or right-to-life supporter, or a pro-choice advocate, there are compelling arguments. Both sides use proven statistics, as well as emotional appeal to establish their points. Pro-choice groups speak to the rights of a woman to choose what she wants to do with her body as a matter of freedom. Aside from personal choice, they believe that there are certain circumstances where abortion may be required due to medical reasons. Pro-life proponents

contentious topic; individuals on both sides of the issue are very passionate and strong­willed about their

18. What is one issue that elicits considerable disagreement in your community or in the larger society? Can you think of more than two sides to this issue? Page 208

 How does your essay challenge something about the way most people think about this topic?

What are the main points of contention surrounding this issue? Be sure to thoroughly discuss contrasting perspectives and the underlying reasons explaining the different positions people take on this topic.

Background: This section is where you present the topic being discussed and an explanation of the debate and its importance. A discussion of the arguments and views for both sides should be included Explain the positive and negative effects of the issue on society, as well as examples of these effects.

Scholarly and workplace writing is important in the workplace environment. There are some important key ideas that I learned that writing in the workplace requires more understanding and comprehension in order to convey thoughts and ideas clearly and effectively. Also, I learned that in order to effectively write in the workplace, it is important to critically read the content to build a basic background about the writing content. The purpose of writing in the workplace is to define tasks and actions in order to make things happen.

As in the entire book, in the chapter “Analyzing Arguments” the authors write to college students, particularly college freshmen. In this chapter the writers emphasize the importance of critically analyzing arguments provided by different sources and the reasons given by each. The authors wrote this chapter with the objective of explaining and aiding students by providing them with the skills required to accurately scrutinize other’s reasoning. Throughout “Analyzing Arguments” the authors demonstrate their authority and knowledge on the subject being discussed by explaining and simplifying the procedure of analyzing arguments.

1. Does the essay contain a clear definitional claim? What is the term being defined (Y)?What is the borderline case (X)?

argues that failure to assign a name to the topic that everyone can agree on is allowing the

Critically evaluate the arguments for and against one of the subject areas raised in the issues and debates sessions

The scope of this essay evidently cannot decidedly answer this intricately complex question, but can instead raise the various issues that arise between these two conflicting values.

Researchers, however, are first to admit that the findings are not conclusive although promising. They

Ferretti and Fan, 2016: 301 “for more than two millennia, scholars have debated the evaluative standards that should be used to judge an argument’s reasonableness”. Thus improving people’s argumentative competence.

2. What are the possibly different main claims/positions related to this topic? (There will be at least two (2) possibly different claims/positions, but there could be more; however, one of them will be YOUR claim/position.)