Throughout my development as a secondary English teacher, I’ve found fiction and poetry effective in teaching students that reading literature can impact their lives. Over the past few years, though, ...

As a teaching tool, these arguments are often about students learning to support claims with evidence. Intro: Hook and thesis Point One: First claim & support Point Two: Second claim & support Point ...

Strong and thorough evidence supports an argument or "claim," providing explanation in the form of quotes, statistics, personal reflections, and observations, to name a few. Yet, just including a ...

This page will help you understand what is needed to build a well-structured and convincing argument in your academic writing. Arguing is something that we are likely to engage in most days of our ...

While teaching argumentative writing to her college English class, Lauren John learns a thing or two herself. With the fall college semester in full swing online, students in my Zoom-based writing ...

An argument paper is one in which the author takes a specific stance on a topic and attempts to sway the reader. Argument papers are not always assigned as such and may include certain types of ...

Dry. Proscriptive. Wordy. Jargony. Boring. Many words have been used to describe scientific writing, very few of which would excite a reader to take a closer look into the contents of a paper. With ...

As time goes by, I am ever more perplexed by why we make students learn to write the classic five-paragraph essay but have so much less interest in developing their spoken argument skills. As much as ...

Writers who need to persuade an audience usually think about logos, ethos, and pathos. Or about what they need to say. But, ironically, where you put information can trump what you say. Moreover, ...