This page will help you understand what is needed to build a well-structured and convincing argument in your academic writing. Arguing is something that we are likely to engage in most days of our ...

We are reading this article not for its content – although I expect it to be of interest to many of you, especially the criminology majors – but as an illustration of how to think in terms of ...

As a teaching tool, these arguments are often about students learning to support claims with evidence. Intro: Hook and thesis Point One: First claim & support Point Two: Second claim & support Point ...

The dreaded blank page. It’s a familiar scene for anyone who’s ever tried to write an essay. The ideas are swirling, but organizing them can feel like untangling a bowl of spaghetti. Two methods often ...

Extended "discourse," such as class presentations or essays written as school assignments, has a particular structure arising from particular expectations and standards. Such structure, expectations, ...

Dennis Allen doesn’t think the five-paragraph essay is dead. In the years before his retirement in May from West Virginia University, the Professor Emeritus did not assign “strict” five-paragraph ...