What is Argumentative Writing

January 13, 2020

Day One: What is an argumentative essay?

Starter: 

What do you think makes a good argumentative essay?

Activity: 

1.  Reading and Note Taking 

Read through the entire link to take notes on argumentative essays.

Make sure to read: 

What is an argumentative essay?

3 good argumentative essay examples and analysis

3 tips for writing a good argumentative essay.

https://blog.prepscholar.com/argumentative-essay-examples

2.  Analysis 

As you can see, each essay has a section that analyzes what it does well and what could be improved.  Now it is your turn to do the same.  

For each example, provide two pluses and deltas. 

Movie Review from RogerEbert.com on Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker 

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/star-wars-the-rise-of-skywalker-movie-review-2019

Obama’s Speech Against the Iraq War

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99591469

The Dangers of the Selfie

https://wcfcourier.com/news/opinion/editorial/the-dangers-of-the-selfie/article_5eec703a-2bce-5d8f-a042-c00c928c42b7.html

3.  Time Permitting

Have the class discuss what pluses and deltas they identified. 

Closure

Which article did you think most effectively created an argument?

Why?