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

The article by The Writing Center at UNC-Chapel Hill on the topic “Argument” is communicating a point of view; an idea you strongly feel about something or call to action on any subject that is true, real or right. An argument includes interpretation of the purpose, making a claim, premise, providing evidence for the case that is a compelling, examples, and evoking change from the audience to believe in 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.

What all is a demonstrated when an argument essay is being written? A writer, when discussing a good argument, will use four important sections. They are the introduction, the presentation of the writer’s position, the summary and critique of alternative views, and finally the conclusion (Ramage, Bean, & Johnson, 2012). Argumentative essays are in a form of the writer’s way to either have their audiences be in agreement with the topic or being in a disagreement. Creating a rhetorical triangle argument, a template or order of structure in an argument can be the best form of question development to begin an argumentative paper. (Ramage, Bean, & Johnson, 2012). The different appeals that are called persuasive

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

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

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

Regarding writing an argument essay, you would have to pick a topic that can be debatable. If the topic only has one side and most people already agreed to what you are presenting, then you are not writing an argument essay. The topic must have both side to be an argument. When writing an argument essay, your essay requires justification of its claim, it is a process as well as a product, and it combines truth seeking and persuasion. These are the skills that you must have to write an excellent argument essay.

Some include all the material necessary to make a perfect academic argument, while others are less formal and not very academic. “A Case Against Huck Finn,” written by John H. Wallace is the least academic argument. In his first line Wallace says, “is the most grotesque example of racist trash

This semester has been an interesting experience. Although much of the class revisited parts of argumentation that I was already well acquainted with in High School, the assignments for this class has been intriguing to say the least. Nonetheless, I was challenged to take a step further into argumentation and given the freedom to analyze the texts the way I saw fit, where as in High School all of our assignments had to be in a pre-approved and archaic format that left little room for the writer’s true voice to shine through. That being said, that freedom to take my papers anywhere I wanted it to go is what I liked the most about this experience. I did not have to make perfect arguments or make perfect analyses, but I was given the chance to try in my own way although we were guided as a class.

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

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.

This semester I was surprised by how much I actually learned and developed my writing skills. I was given the opportunity to learn the many steps that it is required to become a good writer. Writing requires a lot of work. It consists of various steps; prewriting, drafting, rewriting, proofreading and publishing. . All of these components are extremely important, and necessary, and will need to be follow to improve student’s writing.

1. Especially for college student, internet and more specifically the social networking is not a good tool for their reading habits and grades 2. My public arguments primary audience is college students, especially UofA students. Also professors, school faculty and parents. 3. I expect my public argument to be persuasive because of that fact that I used personal and academically trusted source to convince my audience.

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.