EXPS 298: Writing to Communicate, Learn, and Teach
This guide supports course EXPS 298, which provides a theoretical foundation for using writing to communicate and learn for personal and professional purposes.
The argumentative essay is a genre of writing that requires the student to investigate a topic; collect, generate, and evaluate evidence; and establish a position on the topic in a concise manner.
This handout is designed to help writers develop and use logical arguments in writing. This handout helps writers analyze the arguments of others and generate their own arguments.
Model developed by the twentieth-century British philosopher Stephen Toulmin,who noticed that good, realistic arguments typically consist of six parts.
Handout Adapted from Inquire: A Guide to 21st Century Learning (2012 ed.)— King, Erickson, Sebranek; and
Writer’s Inc.: A Student Handbook for Writing & Learning (1996 ed.)—Sebranek, Meyer, Kemper
This guide provides teachers with strategies for helping students understand the differences between persuasive writing and evidence-based argumentation. Students become familiar with the basic components of an argument and then develop their understanding by analyzing evidence-based arguments about texts. Students then generate evidence-based arguments of texts using a variety of resources. Links to related resources and additional classroom strategies are also provided.
