Objective:

Your debate team will write a brief 325-350 word Argument essay that will be comprised of a brief intro that defines the issue and asserts your position, supports your claim, recognizes the opposition, and has a conclusion. You will be graded on professional language, strength of argumentation, and equal participation.

Purpose:

To introduce students to strong writing by requiring brevity, powerful sentence structure to convey clear, concise meaning and strong argumentation before utilizing more complex strategies in upcoming argument units in the English sequence at AOC.

Requirements:

1. All students must participate equally on this paper.
2. It will be done through Google docs where all teachers can see everyone’s participation through that Google doc
3. The document cannot exceed 350 words or points will be deducted. YOU MUST HAVE THE WORD COUNT AT THE BOTTOM OF YOUR ESSAY!!!
4. It must contain the following components:
   1. Brief intro that defines the issue along with the group’s argument/position they intend to take.
   2. A body paragraph that explains the basic points of the argument with a few brief facts to support the argument, recognition of the counterargument from the opposition along with the reasons why the counterargument is incorrect in their claim.
   3. A brief conclusion that carefully concludes or reviews the main claim of the group.
5. You will use a 12 point font, Arial font, in Google docs through Google’s Team Drive. Three printed copies must be submitted as well.
6. You must include a works cited page and you must cite your evidence in your essay. The works cited page does not count in your word count. Your citations also do not count in your 350 word count.
7. All writing rules, techniques and strategies apply including all checklists and research tools taught this year.
8. This paper will be due BY or BEFORE 12:15 PM on TBA.