Argumentative Essay

ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY

BY: OSCAR GALLARDO

In this kind of essay, we not only give information but also present an argument with the PROS (supporting ideas) and CONS (opposing ideas) of an argumentative issue. We should clearly take our stand and write as if we are trying to persuade an opposing audience to adopt new beliefs or behavior. Besides, it requires the student to investigate a topic; collect, generate, and evaluate evidence. The primary objective is to persuade people to change beliefs that many of them do not want to change.

COMPONENTS: 

Tittle: It summarizes the general idea of the essay

Introductory paragraph: 

•It establishes the importance of the subject.

•It presents, briefly, the points that will be developed in detail in the trial

Thesis: it poses a clear and direct point of view

Argumentative expository body: 

•It provides valid reasoning and examples

•It is supported by relevant sources and authors

•Consider the possible refutations to his thesis

concluding paragraph: It summarizes the key points of the essay.

EXAMPLE

OUTLINE

REFERENCES

Bakaj, E. (2012). Everything You Need to Know About Writing a Five-paragraph Essay. Retrieved   from   http://bibliotecavirtual.unad.edu.co:2051/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=529  777&lang=es&site=ehost-live

Lynn Streeter (2008) Legalize It. Taken from: http://www.mesacc.edu/~paoih30491/ArgumentEssay2.pdf

Carvajal, H. (2016, December 19). Academic Writing: Essays [PPT]. Bogotá: Repositorio   Institucional UNAD. Retrieved November 09, 2017, from   http://hdl.handle.net/10596/9686

Stevenson, R. L. (2008). Essays on the Art of Writing. Waiheke Island: Floating Press. Retrieved on   December 12th, 2016 from   http://bibliotecavirtual.unad.edu.co:2051/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=313  691&lang=es&site=eds-live 

Task presented by:

OPEN    AND   DISTANCE   NATIONAL   UNIVERSITY – UNAD
ACADEMIC    WRITING
COURSE   CODE:    551016-3
 
 
UNIT 1:    TASK 3
COLABORATIVE   WORK   ON   TYPES   OF   ACADEMIC    WRITING
INTERMEDIATE
 
 
PRESENTED    BY:

ÓSCAR EDUARDO GALLARDO BOLAÑOS CODE: 1.084.259.010

LORENA RAMÍREZ SÁNCHEZ CODE: 31584611
BÁLMER ANTONIO GARCÍA COY CODE:  16272136
 LEIDI PAOLA MORA CODE: 1.083.914.228
 
TUTOR:
MILLY  ANDREA  MUÑOZ
GROUP:  3
 
 
CEAD :  PALMIRA
               
 
 
NOVEMBER 28^TH  2017

Introduction

INTRODUCTION

Academic writing is a path every student has to walk: learning at college demands a scientific structure thought based mainly on writing. For learning or teaching, academic writing is the only way in the scientific world to convey new ideas, discuss topics or support new theories. ¨In getting to grips with the process of academic writing, a useful starting point is to explore its nature, phases, and characteristics. ¨ (Murray & Moore, 2006.) A good starting is to explore the different types of essays with examples tailored by students. That way students will know when to use an argumentative, descriptive, narrative, expository, or persuasive essay in order to consolidate a solid information. ¨Academic writing is a relationship between the form of thinking and the form of discourse. ¨ (Peters, 2009.) Academic writing is the body and soul of scientific communication.

Researching on types of essays is very inclusive in students´ repertoire in order to fulfill different tasks at the university, whether the student may need to explain, describe or interpret a particular situation, experience or idea, using personal experiences or information. Or probably the student needs to stand on an issue, and that way develop an argument explaining why he/she have made a particular choice. Maybe the student requires to recount a personal experience or he wants to expose a position about some idea. The essays are the conveyor line of ideas between teacher and student in the academic world.

Balmer García´s Answers

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1. What does the author express in conclusion of the structure of a narrative essay?
“Whether it tells a true story or fiction, a narrative essay gives an account of one or more experiences” (A Newsweek education program, P. 139.) These experiences are written in the form of story (Brenda Rollins 2009, P. 23.) What the author express in the structure of a narrative essay is a true story or a fiction story, trying to communicate the experiences he felt about certain topic. In this order of ideas, the author has a specific point where he strives to make a specific point and given that it´s a story, this needs a plot, characters, problems, climax, and often uses dialogues
2. What particular topic does the narrative essay deal with?
As narrative essays deal with true stories or fiction stories, there are a wide range of opportunities that the author can apply on history, literature and theory (White, 2010.) So, it can be an intellectual experience or it can be mounted on current problems in any aspect of human life: philosophy, religion, politics, sociology or even in certain historical passages, where the author draws attention.