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Argumentative Essay
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Skills You Need
1. What Is It?
2. Skill: How to Choose a Topic
3. Skill: How to Write a Claim
4. Skill: How to Build the Reasons and Evidence
Practice
5. Analyze an Argument
6. Debate
Write Your Essay
7. Pick a Topic
8. Claim Statement
9. Building Your Argument
10. Write Your Paper
Adding the "Art"
Know Your Audience
Word Choice
Sentence Structure
Persuasive Skills
Guided Argument
Guided Argument: LEARN
Guided Argument: DO
Modified Project
Alternate Resources
Argumentative Essay
Home
Skills You Need
1. What Is It?
2. Skill: How to Choose a Topic
3. Skill: How to Write a Claim
4. Skill: How to Build the Reasons and Evidence
Practice
5. Analyze an Argument
6. Debate
Write Your Essay
7. Pick a Topic
8. Claim Statement
9. Building Your Argument
10. Write Your Paper
Adding the "Art"
Know Your Audience
Word Choice
Sentence Structure
Persuasive Skills
Guided Argument
Guided Argument: LEARN
Guided Argument: DO
Modified Project
Alternate Resources
More
Home
Skills You Need
1. What Is It?
2. Skill: How to Choose a Topic
3. Skill: How to Write a Claim
4. Skill: How to Build the Reasons and Evidence
Practice
5. Analyze an Argument
6. Debate
Write Your Essay
7. Pick a Topic
8. Claim Statement
9. Building Your Argument
10. Write Your Paper
Adding the "Art"
Know Your Audience
Word Choice
Sentence Structure
Persuasive Skills
Guided Argument
Guided Argument: LEARN
Guided Argument: DO
Modified Project
Alternate Resources
Adding the "Art"
The "ART" of writing is the "spice" you give the basic ingredients of your writing.
So what "spices" up an essay, an argument, a debate or a speech?
Know Your Audience
Word Choice
Words Matter!
Word choice is crucial in adding "art" into writing.
Think about:
Tone or Mood of words
Precision of words
Poetry of words
Imagery of Words
Build Engaging Sentences
The Whole Playlist of Sentence skills
Credibility, Emotion and Logic (Ethos, Pathos, Logos) - Modes of Persuasion
Modes of Persuasion -
Great examples
Look at this Infographic to better understand
Watch this video to see how advertisers use these to convince potential buyers
Ethos - Convince an audience using the credibility of a person, an expert in the field or a celebrity.
Pathos - Convince an audience by using emotion
Logos - Convince an audience with facts, figures, statistics and logical reasoning
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