ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY
The argumentative essay is a persuasive essay in which you will try and convince your readers to accept the argument that you’re making and convince them to switch to your side. You will need to use facts to back up your stance and get your readers to agree with you through drawing conclusions and connections to back up your argument. The very first thing you’re going to need to do is to select a topic that has more than one clear side. If your topic only has one side, then it should not be used for an argumentative essay. You will then need to approach the topic by gathering, generating, and evaluating credible sources to support your evidence. Every argumentative essay has four main parts to the body section of the paper. A compelling argument, a clear stance on the subject, evidence supporting its claims, and a solid and unbiased counter-argument. Our examples of argumentative essays can help demonstrated what one looks like.
How to Plan a Persuasive Essay
1. Take a position. Which side of the issue or problem do you want to write about, and what solution are you going to offer? Know what you want to argue and why.
2. Know your audience. It is important to analyze who your audience will be, and how they will feel towards your topic and argument.
3. Research your topic. In a persuasive essay, you must use specific and convincing evidence to back up your points. Your opinion is not enough; therefore it needs to be backed by facts and research.
4. Figure out how you want to format your argument. Figure out how you want to present your argument and what order you will present the evidence.
To construct an effective argumentative essay, you need to follow several important steps. These are vital to ensuring that the reader is convinced of your argument and understands your topic.
Almost all essays should be broken into three parts:
THE INTRODUCTION
THE CONCLUSION
How to Plan a Persuasive Essay
1. Take a position. Which side of the issue or problem do you want to write about, and what solution are you going to offer? Know what you want to argue and why.
2. Know your audience. It is important to analyze who your audience will be, and how they will feel towards your topic and argument.
3. Research your topic. In a persuasive essay, you must use specific and convincing evidence to back up your points. Your opinion is not enough; therefore it needs to be backed by facts and research.
4. Figure out how you want to format your argument. Figure out how you want to present your argument and what order you will present the evidence.
How to Format an Argumentative Essay
Almost all essays should be broken into three parts:
- Introduction
- body
- conclusion
THE INTRODUCTION
A good introduction in an argumentative essay acts as a good opening statement in a trial. Just like a lawyer, a writer must present the issue at hand, give background, and put forth the main argument -- all in a logical, intellectual and persuasive way.
- Your introductory paragraph should serve to frame the rest of your paper in the reader’s mind. Think of it as a preview; you want them to move forward from here with a clear understanding of what the central argument of your paper is.
- In order to frame the central idea, many essays contain a thesis statement, which is a one or two sentence phrase that captures the theme of the paper. These should be as specific as possible and should be included as the last part of your intro paragraph.
- The body of your essay is where your evidence is presented and tied into your argument. Each body paragraph should seek to further prove the central theme you put forth in your thesis statement.
- The body paragraphs should each begin with a topic sentence that drives the rest of the paragraph and relates back to the thesis statement.
- Be sure to include transition sentences between paragraphs to ensure a nice flow to your writing.
- Within each paragraph on a specific idea, present any outside evidence that you have used to formulate your idea
THE CONCLUSION
- Your conclusion should not simply restate your intro paragraph. If your conclusion says almost the exact same thing as your introduction, it may indicate that you have not done enough critical thinking during the course of your essay (since you ended up right where you started).
- your conclusion should tell us why we should care about your paper. What is the significance of your claim? Why is it important to you as the writer or to me as the reader? What information should you or I take away from this?
- your conclusion should create a sense of movement to a more complex understanding of the subject of your paper. By the end of your essay, you should have worked through your ideas enough so that your reader understands what you have argued and is ready to hear the larger point (i.e. the "so what") you want to make about your topic.
Argument Essay;
Arranged Marriages
Many cultures believe in arranged marriages. Arranged marriages usually exist in the country of these cultures, such as India and Japan. Furthermore, many of these cultures bring this practice of arranged marriages to the United States, and they force their American raised children into marriages with people whom the children do not love. There are many people who are against arranged marriages, especially in the United States. On the other hand, there are many people who believe that arrange marriages should exist in America. I believe that arrange marriages should not exist in the United States because it is a free country, depression could occur, and it prevents true love
First, I am against arranged marriages in the United States because it takes away the freedom that America has to offer. Every person in America has the right to choose what he/she wants to do and whom he/she wants to be with. If people are forced into marriages, regardless of their culture, then it goes against everything that America stands for, which is freedom of choice. For example, I have a friend who is part of the Indian culture, but he is American raised. Although his parents live in America, they still forced my friend into a marriage against his free will. Well, the freedom that America offers did not apply to his parents, and my friend did not have the chance to experience the freedom that my other friends and I got to experience. As you can see, America is a land of freedom, but arranged marriages take that freedom away, and everyone who lives here should be able to experience that freedom.
Furthermore, I believe that arrange marriages should not exist in America because it could cause depression. When you are with someone who you do not naturally love, you become unhappy. When you are unhappy, you become depressed. Depression prevents you from living a normal mental and physical healthy life. To illustrate, my next-door neighbors have an arranged marriage. The wife explained to my mother that she is very depressed because she did not marry someone she loved, and she was never depressed before this marriage. As a result, she never leaves the house, and she always looks frail when we see her. Perhaps if my neighbor did marry someone she loved, she would not be depressed.
A final reason why I am against arranged marriages in America is that true love is prevented. When true love is prevented, it becomes challenging to find or be with your soul mate. When a person does not have a soul mate, he/she tends to feel alone and incomplete. For instance, I watched a movie a long time ago, which was about a family who immigrated to America with another family. These two families arranged it that their kids would be married when they grew up. When the kids got married, they were not truly in love; they both loved other people. They lost their true soul mates, and they spent their entire marriage feeling alone, lost, and incomplete. Life is more fulfilling when you marry the one you love.
In conclusion, there may be specific reasons why arranged marriages exist; however, I am fully against them existing in America. Arranged marriages prevent freedom of choice, cause depression, and they prevent you from finding your true soul mate. My close friend never got a chance to experience the freedom that America offers because his parents forced him into an arranged marriage. Furthermore, my family and I always feel bad for my neighbor's wife, who suffers from deep depression because of her arranged marriage. Finally, if the two characters in the movie that I saw would not have had an arranged marriage, then they would have been able to marry their soul mates and feel more fulfilled and complete in life. America offers many choices, and one of those choices should include being with the person who you want to spend the rest of your life with. Arranged marriages should not exist in America.
TO SUM UP, An argumentative essay is a critical piece of writing, aimed at presenting an objective analysis of the subject matter, narrowed down to a single topic. The main idea of all the criticism is to provide an opinion either of positive or negative implication. As such, a critical essay requires research and analysis, strong internal logic and sharp structure. Its structure normally builds around introduction with a topic's relevance and a thesis statement, body paragraphs with arguments linking back to the main thesis, and conclusion. In addition, an argumentative essay may include a refutation section where conflicting ideas are acknowledged, described, and criticized. Each argument of an argumentative essay should be supported with sufficient evidence, relevant to the point.
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