After deciding where you stand on your topic and creating a thesis, you are ready to search for ways to support your way of thinking on your issue. You have to take into account the audience you are writing for, common knowledge and beliefs, and what strategy you will take to prove your point.
In informative papers writers narrow their reasons to less than five. An argumentative paper will be written to persuade those viewing it while a blog post may be written to clarify a topic. You will have to use some of the tools shared in previous chapters to come up with these, such as clustering, looping, freewriting and brainstorming. For each kind of document readers expect different different things. For example, if I were to write an informative paper, a reader would be expected to be taught something about the topic but, on the other hand, if I were writing a reflective document, my reader would be interested on my personal experience on the subject. It is very important to think about what the reader will gain from your writing piece and whether that is what your intentions are.
Every reason you state supporting your thesis should always be followed up with evaluated evidence. You can get it from your own experiences, quote from sources, visual images and other various information you have found during the gathering data phase of your project.
Another important decision you have to make is what mode of appeal will you use to capture your reader's interest. Will you use scholarly people to endorse your idea, create emotion from the subject, tap into people's belief system, or draw from those that are trusted in the particular field you are writing about? One other way you can appeal to readers is to lay the situation out in a logical fashion as if you were a lawyer. In this case you would use deduction and induction to achieve this. Deduction relies on using general principles to support it and induction uses observations to draw their conclusions. You don't have to be devoted to one method because they can work together.
Make sure your argument does not stray from your subject. They call this a" red herring." Discrediting other groups is not usually effective. That makes me think of negative, backstabbing political campaigns. Those are called ad hominem attacks. Make sure you history you use to support it is relevant.
You need to remove from your paper any generalizations you may have included, misrepresentations of opposing arguments, avoid citing unqualified experts and never insult your reader with the idea that if "everyone" believes your argument to be true, he should.
In your paper you should do your best to present both sides of the issue honestly, be honest about statistics and make educated comparisons and not silly ones. Be sure to pay attention to whether your reasoning is educated and avoid being careless in trying to prove your argument.
In informative papers writers narrow their reasons to less than five. An argumentative paper will be written to persuade those viewing it while a blog post may be written to clarify a topic. You will have to use some of the tools shared in previous chapters to come up with these, such as clustering, looping, freewriting and brainstorming. For each kind of document readers expect different different things. For example, if I were to write an informative paper, a reader would be expected to be taught something about the topic but, on the other hand, if I were writing a reflective document, my reader would be interested on my personal experience on the subject. It is very important to think about what the reader will gain from your writing piece and whether that is what your intentions are.
Every reason you state supporting your thesis should always be followed up with evaluated evidence. You can get it from your own experiences, quote from sources, visual images and other various information you have found during the gathering data phase of your project.
Another important decision you have to make is what mode of appeal will you use to capture your reader's interest. Will you use scholarly people to endorse your idea, create emotion from the subject, tap into people's belief system, or draw from those that are trusted in the particular field you are writing about? One other way you can appeal to readers is to lay the situation out in a logical fashion as if you were a lawyer. In this case you would use deduction and induction to achieve this. Deduction relies on using general principles to support it and induction uses observations to draw their conclusions. You don't have to be devoted to one method because they can work together.
Make sure your argument does not stray from your subject. They call this a" red herring." Discrediting other groups is not usually effective. That makes me think of negative, backstabbing political campaigns. Those are called ad hominem attacks. Make sure you history you use to support it is relevant.
You need to remove from your paper any generalizations you may have included, misrepresentations of opposing arguments, avoid citing unqualified experts and never insult your reader with the idea that if "everyone" believes your argument to be true, he should.
In your paper you should do your best to present both sides of the issue honestly, be honest about statistics and make educated comparisons and not silly ones. Be sure to pay attention to whether your reasoning is educated and avoid being careless in trying to prove your argument.
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