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ARGUMENT WRITING
What is an argument? Please write your idea of how to write an argument.
We will agree that, when writing, an argument is:
There are THREE types of arguments in writing:
1. FACT
2. JUDGEMENT
3. POLICY
Every Argument Has FIVE Elements:
1. a CLAIM
2. a claim based on EVIDENCE of some sort
3. a WARRANT that explains how the evidence supports the claim
4. BACKING to support the warrant
5. REBUTTALS to qualify the claim
DIRECTIONS:
• Imagine that you are crime scene investigators.
• You must determine what really happened at the following crime scene.
• Annotate – highlight – make notes in the margin – about things that seem suspicious.
“Slip or Trip?”
At five-feet-six and a hundred and ten pounds, Queenie Volupides was a sight to behold and to clasp. When she tore out of the house after a tiff with her husband, Arthur, she went to the country club where there was a party going on.
She left the club shortly before on ein the morning and invited a few friends to follow her home and have one more drink. They got to the Volupides house about ten minutes after Queenie, who met them at the door and said, “Something terrible happened. Arthur slipped and fell on the stairs. He was coming down for another drink – he still had the glass in his hand – and I think he’s dead. Oh, my God – what shall I do?
The autopsy conducted later concluded that Arthur had died from a wound on the head and confirmed that he had been drunk.
Can we believe what Queenie says?
Use your “Basic Argument Organizer” to make an argument based on
what is most likely – not your opinion.
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