Turn
back to chapter 7 of your textbook. We’ve already studied this
material, but you need to review it as you put together the rough draft
of your paper.
Take a look again at pages 130-136 and review the different types of arguments discussed in sections 7.2-7.6.
We’ll skip section 7.1 in this review (a discussion of deductive /
inductive patterns) because you will be writing a deductive paper by
default since you are all following the Classical Essay Structure and
your thesis needs to be in your first section to fit that model, so the
paper will automatically be deductive (if you are doing things
correctly).
Sections 7.2-7.6 present overviews of various types of argumentative essays you might write at some point.
But that’s not the only way that these patterns can be used. As
explained in section 7.7 (pages 136-137), the different “modes” of
argument writing are often combined, especially in a longer research
project.
So how might you use the different “modes” of argument writing in
your research essay? Is there a place anywhere for a definition
argument? Or an evaluation argument? Etc.?
Your paper should mainly be a “proposal argument,” where you call for
the reader to “do something,” but you might have to get into some “sub
debates” in various parts of your paper.
I won’t ask you for anything as structured as an outline like the one
you see on page 137, but I would like you to think about how you might
be able to incorporate some of the strategies of chapter 7 into your
last big paper.
Type up some ideas. This is just a “brainstorming exercise,” so it
doesn’t have to be too formal or too complex: I’m just hoping to get you
to think about using this “putting it all together” technique somehow
as you finalize your paper.
And–please understand–you don’t have to include all of these in any
paper, so there’s no specific need to try to discuss how you could use
them all . . . but I do think you could probably work in one (or more)
“sub debates” somewhere in a 1500 word paper, so brainstorm!
