Argument
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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