An Argumentative Essay: How To..
An Argumentative Essay: How To..
An Argumentative Essay: How To..
How to...
What is Argumentative Writing
drawn from Section 7 of Scribner
Purpose Example
Support a cause Please support my soccer
team by buying discount
coupons.
could be claimed
It may be asserted that... However,
might be argued
Useful words and phrases contd.
claimed
It has been asserted that... However,
argued
Example Refutation
Some people might claim that there is no
real alternative to a new generation of
nuclear reactors. However, combined heat
and power units, which generate electricity,
are already economical for large houses or
blocks of flats and smaller units will be on
the market next year. Local generation of
electricity eliminates the enormous losses
of wasted heat in electricity generation by
fossil fuels or nuclear reactors. Wind
turbines and solar cells on the roof can
also provide home solutions and will
become more economical as costs come
down with mass production.
Concluding paragraph