Rules For Writers - Chapter 47

In this chapter, we get to learn of ways on how to construct an argumentative essay that will not only support our views but help others (audience) understand how or why it is that your argument is true. We are shown a way of composing this essay by not being too aggressive but reasonable enough to have our audience think and have an open mind to want to read more. It discusses how we should accomplish this by completing a well written thesis statement that will grasp the readers attention and interest to want to hear you out and see exactly what it is that you have to say.

With our arguments, we want to make sure that we not only include our personal views but should also include scholarly resources that can help us, as the writer, persuade the readers to change their point of view. Besides including your own arguments, we should also include information from the other party. This will essentially help the reader understand that you did go out and research both sides of this topic, and in the end help support your overall views as to why you think this certain way.

When integrating supporting information from accredited resources, we want to make sure that we give credit to the person who had written this thought and site it in proper MLA formats in order to insure that the reader is aware that you did obtain this info from a certain site or book. We do want to include clear and concise arguments to support our reasoning's and give as much supporting evidence as possible. When writing our essays, we want to think about the opposing party and their counter arguments in order to achieve a convincing, persuasive, argument. By including views of the opposing party, this may in the end help them understand the reasoning behind your arguments by comparison, in which the reader would likely have a better understanding behind all of your arguments.

From taking English 302 last semester, I realized that I liked to write argumentative essays more than any of our other essay topics. I found it to be who I really am as a person to argue any facts that I may be opposed to and try to find any reasoning's behind it. After reading this chapter, it gave me a refresher of what I should be focusing on when writing this type of essay and to keep in mind of our audience as we are trying to persuade them to change their views. By being too straight forward and not providing the facts, it will ultimately have a negative effect on your reasoning behind your essay in which you will not accomplish your overall goal. I will make sure to include as much supporting info as possible and of course include the opposite parties views, in order to maintain their interests throughout the essay and provide constructive, reasonable, supporting arguments.