Essay Writing Techniques
An argumentative essay is the type of assignment where you will take a stance on the subject and convince your audience to your ideas with the help of strong factual and logical evidence. The evidence you collect in your paper should be from valid sources so that you can convince your reader to believe your stance. The process of writing this type of paper is similar to delivering a speech. First you will pick a stance in your mind and then think about the major arguments that you can develop under this stance. For each argument that you make, you will have to gather relevant evidence and supporting data that will persuade the audience of your ideas. If you are to create an argumentative paper on herbal medicine, and meet a specific length given by your teacher, then you should keep the following things in your mind.
Decide whether you are going to write this paper in favor or against herbal medicine. You may have your own reasons for picking the stance and no one will judge you for that. You have to make sure that whatever stance you pick; you give enough evidence to support it. The best way is to listen to your heart while choosing the stance because then it will be easy for your stay motivated and collect relevant evidence. When you are writing with passion, it shows in your paper. Read the subject carefully, create an analysis and pick a stance that you can support easily.
Based on your stance, develop a clear and concise thesis statement. This statement should represent the entire extract of your paper to your audience so that they can judge what the rest of your paper is all about. Developing the major arguments is easy once you have a clear thesis statement. You have to divide your statement into three or more parallel parts depending upon the number of body paragraphs you have in your paper.
Once you have your arguments, you should go ahead and collect relevant information needed for supporting them. Place your data in an outline so that you can easily follow a proper structure. The main structure of your paper will stay the same regardless of its lengths. You will have the following sections in your paper.
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