Argumentative Essays
A Brief Guide to Writing Argumentative Essays
The art of
argumentation is not an easy skill to acquire. Many people
might think that if one simply has an opinion, one can argue it
effectively, and these folks are always
surprised when others don't agree with them because their logic seems so
correct.
Additionally, writers of argumentation often forget that their primary
purpose in an argument is to "win" it--to sway the reader to accept their
point of view. It is easy to name call, easy to ignore the point of view
or research of others, and extremely easy to accept one's own opinion as
gospel, even if the writer has not checked his or her premise in a couple
of years, or, as is the case for many young writers, never questioned the
beliefs inherited from others.
Want to know what you think about something? Then write an
argumentative
essay. To be fair, however, you'll find that one of the first things you
must do is become an expert
on the issue. When you pick a topic, you should avoid writing about issues
that cannot be won, no matter how strongly you might feel about them. The
five hottest topics of our time seem to be gun control, abortion, capital
punishment, freedom of speech, and probably the most recent, euthanasia,
or the right to die.
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