Let us remind ourselves about the invention techniques in the early semester. Those skills help you control your ideas and organize them more clearly when you are writing an academic paper. There are several invention techniques you explored to find which fits best you. Refer to DAY 6 if you need to review them.
2. Pre-writing
Now that you have reviewed the invention techniques, we can move on. You should have all selected the topic of your argumentative essay, so what I want you to do is to choose an invention technique that helps you the most and spend seven minutes working on generating ideas for your essay with the strategy you selected.
3. Types of Argumentative Essays
You’ve learned two types of outlines for argumentative essay in the previous classes. It is good to have a reminder of them again so that you have a clear idea of how to construct the outline of your essay. You can review the outlines of both HERE. We will go over how to insert opposing arguments (Cons as they are called in this PPT) into your essay by reviewing this PPT. Now that you have a picture of what your argumentative essay should look like, decide on an outline plan and think about how to put opposing arguments in your essay.
4. Refuting Strategies
There are useful refuting strategies and useful expressions in constructing your argumentative essay. I will walk you through the PROCEDURE OF REFUTATION that you can use in your essay step by step.
5. Outlining
Now that we have reviewed how to refute opposing argument of the claims of your essay. You will be given 10 minutes to finish the outline of your argumentative essay based on the procedures and expression so far. Use the outline as a guide for your argumentative paper. Remember it is due before class on Monday, November 1st.
