This will be helpful this week and next as we compose our persuasive essays: An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments.
As will, from your St. Martin’s Handbook:
- 8e: Identifying elements of an argument
- 9: Constructing Arguments
- 9a: Arguing for a purpose
- 9b: Determining whether a statement can be argued
- 9c: Formulating a working thesis
- 9d: Finding good reasons
- 9e: Making ethical appeals
- 9f: Making logical appeals
- 9g: Making emotional appeals
- 9h: Using sources in an argument
- 9i: Organizing an argument
- 9j: Designing an argument