Argumentative Writing
Based on logic and reasoning and never on opinion
What is argumentative writing?
The way authors organize information in a text
What is text structure?
A set of guidelines on how to format an essay.
What is MLA Format?
A text that presents an idea or opinion and provides supporting sentences to prove it.
What is proposition and support?
The reason why someone writes something.
What is author's purpose?
The position an individual takes on an issue
What is the claim?
Information that is organized in order of time
What is chronological?
MLA font style
What is Times New Roman?
What are types of support?
The acronym PIE
What is Persuade, Inform, Entertain?
It is supported by evidence found through extensive research
What is the author's claim/argument?
When an action and its results are explained
What is cause and effect?
MLA text size
What is size 12?
What are facts in number form?
Instructions on how to make a compost pile
What is to inform?
A statement that addresses the claim of a person that opposes the author's argument
What is the counterclaim, or counterargument?
When a text provides step-by-step information
What is sequence?
The way you tell your readers that certain material in your writing came from another source.
What is a citation?
Results of scientific research and surveys
What are facts?
A short story about a boy who never cleans his room and the horrible mess that accumulates.
What is to entertain?
Disproves a counterargument
What is the refutation?
Text that provides an opinion or idea with information that backs it up
What is proposition and support?
Used to give credit to someone else's words/research in a paragraph or essay.
What is an in-text citation?
Statements that express proper and reasonable thinking
What is logic and reasoning?
A billboard asking voters to appoint Joe Santiago as Sanitation Commissioner.
What is to persuade?