Argument Writing

Writing arguments in Grades 11-12 means writing them in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence. That means introducing precise, knowledgeable claims, establishing their significance, distinguishing them from alternate or opposing claims, and creating an organization that logically sequences your claims, counterclaims, reasons, and evidence. It also means developing your claims and counterclaims fairly and thoroughly, supplying the most relevant evidence for each while pointing out the strengths and limitations of both in a way that anticipates your audience's knowledge level, concerns, values, and possible biases, using words, phrases, and clauses, as well as varied syntax, to link the major sections of the text, create cohesion, and clarify the relationships between claims and reasons, between reasons and evidence, and between claims and counterclaims, establishing and maintaining a formal style and objective tone while attending to the norms and conventions of the discipline you're writing in, and providing a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the argument you presented.

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