Focus on your Topic
What is the first step to creating your written argument?
To focus and refine your topic.
What has various shades of meaning?
Rhetoric
What is the opposite of empathy?
Apathy.
What is an issue in a written argument?
Any topic of concern or controversy
What helps support your position in the development of your argument?
What dialectical mean?
The art of arriving at the truth by disclosing the views contrary to your own and overcoming them.
What is a question at issue?
A particular aspect of the issue under consideration.
What can provide an interesting way into your argument?
Applicable Quotation.
What is discredited in some well-reasoned way?
Refutation
What happens if the writer doesn't focus on one topic?
It risks producing an unorganized essay.
What does an opposing view allow you to do?
What do you need to develop in your essay?
Empathy
What is the final step in establishing the focus of an essay?
Creating a solid thesis.
What can you build you essay with?
A relevant narrative.
What does a persuasive argument rely on?
Dialectical Thinking.