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Argumentative Essay Guide

This document provides guidance for writing an argumentative essay, including its purpose, audience, and structure. The purpose is to explicitly state a personal opinion on a complex issue in order to attack opposing views, convince undecided readers, or reinforce social groups. The audience is typically academic or unknown readers. The structure involves a title, introduction stating the topic and opinion, body paragraphs supporting the opinion with arguments and examples, and a conclusion summarizing the arguments and thesis.

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Argumentative Essay Guide

This document provides guidance for writing an argumentative essay, including its purpose, audience, and structure. The purpose is to explicitly state a personal opinion on a complex issue in order to attack opposing views, convince undecided readers, or reinforce social groups. The audience is typically academic or unknown readers. The structure involves a title, introduction stating the topic and opinion, body paragraphs supporting the opinion with arguments and examples, and a conclusion summarizing the arguments and thesis.

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Argumentative Essay

1) Purpose (Why am I writing?): to explicitly state your personal opinion about a complex
(usually controversial) issue. This, in turn, is typically applied in order to attack opposite
perspective and/or to convince undecided people, and/or to reinforce social groups.

a) Avoid approximations (probably, possibly, perhaps, maybe, could, may…).


b) Avoid vagueness (somebody, a person, a study, somewhere…).
c) Use accurate and precise vocabulary (very happy thrilled, to do changes to (apply)
change…).
d) Avoid tautologies, fallacies and dogmatic answers. They reduce the effectiveness of the
persuasion.

2) Audience (Who am I writing to?):

a) Academic (Formal-Neutral Register).


b) Unknown people (Neutral Register).

3) Structure (How is the text built up?):

a) Title
b) First Paragraph:
− One or two sentences describing the topic to analyse.
− A last sentence that explicitly states your personal opinion.
c) Paragraphs stating different arguments that support your opinion, with expansion of the
ideas and examples.
d) A conclusion paragraph that gathers and synthetize all the arguments and your thesis.

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