Finding Arguments
in Lived Experience
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Last semester, you learned the
basic principles of formal argument, what John Ramage and John Bean, the
authors of Writing Arguments, one textbook in use, call “explicit”
argument. “An explicit argument,” the
authors explain, “states directly a controversial claim and supports it with
reasons and evidence” (4, emphasis added).
Explicit or formal argument, as
the names suggest, follows certain patterns (the thesis goes here, the
counterargument goes there); it also makes fairly strict demands on the kinds
of evidence that can be used. 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8 Eldred-University of Kentucky English-University of
Kentucky Writing Program-Town and
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