Sophia: Argumentative Essays

This tutorial focuses on argumentative essays, longer writings on a well-researched topic with the writer arguing one side of the topic, free of fallacies, and providing several claims. A short YouTube clip of Monty Python shows the difference between an argument and a contradiction. It also provides two slide shows: the first presents ways to argue your claim and how to argue effectively; the second lists new terms and their definitions. It ends with how to tie it all together into a paper. W.9-10.1 Arguments W.9-10.1d Style/tone/conv, W.11-12. 1 Arguments