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Argument 




An Argumentative Essay
Makes claims based on factual evidence.

Makes counter-claims. The author takes opposing views into account.

Neutralizes or "defeats" serious opposing ideas.

Convinces audience through the merit and reasonableness of the claims and proofs offered.


Often compares texts or ideas to establish a position.
Logic based.

Argument overview, adapted from http://rpdp.net/files/ccss/ELA/ELA_9-10_Curr_Res/Writing%209-10/Writing%20Standard%201%20(9-10).pdf

A Persuasive Essay
May make claims based on opinion.

May not take opposing ideas into account.





Persuades by appealing to the audience’s emotion or by relying on the character or credentials of the writer – less on the merits of his or her reasons and evidence.

Emotion-based.









An Introduction to Argumentative Writing / Southern Nevada Regional Professional Development Program 
http://rpdp.net/files/ccss/ELA/ELA_9-10_Curr_Res/Writing%209-10/Writing%20Standard%201%20(9-10).pdf

The Writing Center: Argument (UNC Chapel Hill)
http://writingcenter.unc.edu/handouts/argument/

Basic Language Literacy:Writing: Argumentation and Persuasion
http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/basic/argument1.html

Argument and Persuasion: standard five part model
http://faculty.css.edu/phagen/6412day5/argvspers.pdf

Types of papers: Argument
http://www.roanestate.edu/owl/Argument.html

The Toulmin Model of Argument
http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~digger/305/toulmin_model.htm

Fallacies
http://changingminds.org/disciplines/argument/fallacies/fallacies.htm

Making the argument
http://changingminds.org/disciplines/argument/making_argument/making_argument.htm

Syllogisms
http://changingminds.org/disciplines/argument/syllogisms/syllogisms.htm 

Types of reasoning
http://changingminds.org/disciplines/argument/types_reasoning/types_reasoning.htm

Virtues of style
http://changingminds.org/disciplines/argument/virtues_style/five_virtues.htm

Argumentation
http://facstaff.bloomu.edu/jtomlins/argument1.htm

Logic in Argumentative Writing, Purdue Online Writing Lab
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/659/1/



Links culled from A. Anderson Berkeley HS.   
http://www.berkeley.k12.sc.us/webpages/alishaanderson/index.cfm?subpage=98668
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