Argument-Making In College

Arguments can be made out of just about anything. An argument has two sides, and conveying an opinion is one of those two sides. Arguments sort out the views of others and the support of those arguments represented by those people from past events. These events let others show their argument about what will happen in the future, and of how the future carries on today. Newspaper articles can be arguments, and laws being passed in Congress have a form of argument associated with them. There are many types of arguments that are presented in many ways. In Everything’s an Argument by Andrea A. Lunsford and John J. Ruszkiewicz, information is given about three specific types of argument: forensic, deliberative, and ceremonial. Forensic arguments

With writing an argumentative paper, it’s important to have all the right facts, and make sure you have reliable sources. If you don’t have the right facts or reliable sources nobody will want to read your argument; because you wont have the right facts to back up your points. When writing an argumentative paper, its good to know all the facts about each side. Knowing all the facts about each side is important, because people want to read

In “How Do I Write a Text for College” (The World is a Text, 2006), Patty Strong said that writing in in college is much more different than writing in high school and so as the purpose of it. In high school student were told to write texts depending on their prior knowledge while on an institution of higher education students have the flexibility to write not only about what they already learnt but what they are trying to learn. In addition, writing in college requires a higher level of critical thinking and understanding, but it will unequivocally expand their knowledge.

An effective argumentative source develops consistency in reasoning and has logos that influences people through logic. Logos explains and establishes the ideas of the writer in

I found the article on “Argument” helpful because; the topic is understandable, did a good job to defined the topic, the order of relevant, provided specific examples how to improve my writing of college papers.

Argumentation – An argument is writing that is used to convince the audience of something.

In the article by Downs and Wardle “Teaching about Writing, Righting Misconceptions”, the author’s state a common misconception of writing for first year composition is that academic writing is somehow universal. This idea can be misleading since teachers have always taught that there is a basic set of rules for writing. However, I agree with the idea that writing is not universal because college students write for a various number of discourse communities and do not have one general audience. Content, context, and genre are bound to change while attending a university.

(Ramage, Bean, & Johnson, 2012). The best way in choosing an argument is finding a topic that can make a good statement or debate. Gathering enough evidence to prove your topic, can have the audience agree with the focus. College students will tend to write on arguments that they are very interested in or something that they can relate too. There two main helpful ideas when choosing evidence and research. First hand research is research that has been established by doing interviews, experiments, surveys, or personal experiences and anecdotes. Second hand research is research from getting other ideas and or information such as books, periodicals, and web sites. All evidence of work must be trustworthy, dependably, and credible resources (The Writing Lab & The Owl at Purdue, 2016). The reason for an argument is to persuade other people or another person, to your point of view (Hult & Huckin, 2016). The 5 key terms of information are specific thing to look upon when creating an argument. Persuade who are undecided to agree with you, reinforce views with those who already agree with you, try and change the minds of those who are in disagreement, what is being written, the writer should have his/her own feeling to the choose looked upon or frowned upon, and finally, a college student whether they are or not, they need to show the ability to work through the

You may be caught by surprise to hear that the word “argument” does not require to be written anywhere in your assignment for it to be an important part of your task. In fact, making an argument then later on expressing a point of view on a subject and going ahead to support it with evidence is often the primary aim of academic writing. Your instructor perhaps assumes

Overall, I believe that I acquired a conceptual and practical knowledge of argumentation. The rhetorical situation worksheets that we were given in the beginning of the semester was a great refresher on all that I was taught on argumentation. It also helped me to understand the format that the professor would like us to introduce the articles and it’s Kairos before we analyze them. These worksheets definitely helped when it came to writing our first paper. However, although the worksheets made it easy to know what to put in the paper, it was not easy to actually put the paper together and make it flow. Therefore, when I wrote the paper it felt choppy in some places due to the fact

Although the most subjective and probably the hardest of our assignments, the argument proposal was easier for me to write about since I was generally curious about the topic. Writing an argumentative essay can help students improve their writing, develop their critical-thinking skills, and also learn how to perform research. One of my weaknesses with my argument proposal was relying too much on evidence and synthesizing ideas instead of generating my own or making a definite stance, instead of trying new ways to be creative and capture the attention of the

Argument is an aspect that often comes up in every day conversation on a variety of topics from which salad dressing is better to who will make the better President. Therefore, it seemed only fitting to argue which that baseball is the true American pastime. Argument is defined by Valenzano III and Braden’s textbook, The Speaker, as “… the portion of the speech that validates your position on the issue laid out in the statement of facts.” Conducting an analysis of the argument techniques, credibility, organization and overall delivery of my speech is essential to defining and improving my argumentative skills in the future.

In the English 101 course, numerous topics concerning writing argumentative essays have been discussed to improve a student’s, such as myself, writing. When writing an argumentative essay, it is important to state the point that the student is arguing, in the topic sentence, in addition to making sure that all questions asked are answered. This includes writing and reviewing the topic sentence more than once, to ensure that all aspects have been answered. In class, I have learned that writing a good essay may include writing a not too well written first draft in order to get the ideas down on paper. Writing topic sentences for each body paragraph is also of use as it frames the topic being discussed in the paragraph and ensures that the writer does not go off track. The course has also taught me to write an assumption before introducing any quote, to give a description as to what the quote is going to entail, think beyond what is written in the text, and to make connections in order to obtain a better understanding of the overall article that is being analyzed.

However, I believe that my argumentative essay is my strongest essay. I believe that my argumentative essay is my strongest essay in my portfolio because I am so use to writing a paper similar to this that it came second nature to me when I began to write it. I also believe that this is my strongest essay because this was the first time I properly used transition words and phrases throughout my entire essay. For instance, my conclusion flowed perfectly right into the next sentence, “Thus, the thought of using a cellular device while driving is not the worst thing do to while operating a vehicle. Therefore, the committees and groups should rethink their recommendations on bans being proposed…” (Spicer 4). This is why I feel that my argumentative essay is my strongest essay in my

Writing is one of the four basic skills to be taught for the students. It is a way for students to express their idea and opinion. The important of writing can be seen in daily activities when they need to write short texts such as memos, invitation letters, sympathy notes, brochure, article, business letters, applications letter and many others. Through writing students can transfer their experiences and knowledge to others. So, they should be able to produce sentences and develop it into paragraphs and essays. It is active thinking process of the students to plan, arrange and express idea in order the text could be understood by the readers. A good writing helps avoid misunderstanding between the writer’s idea and the reader’s opinion.