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Emilie Villa
Subject:
Communication
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Lesson Plan
Level:
High School
Grade:
10
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    How to Write Argumentative Essay?

    How to Write Argumentative Essay?

    Overview

    It may happen to be assigned to write an essay and do not know how to deal with it. The topic may be quite challenging, or a student may have lack of technical writing skills or enthusiasm. These are the main issues an average student experiences during his academic career.

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    One of the most challenging tasks in assessing student’s ability to justify his/her opinion is to write an argumentative essay where a student has to:
    •    express independent point of view about the proposed statement;
    •    bring relevant arguments and counterarguments;
    •    show the ability to build statements logically and coherently as well as to provide semantic division into paragraphs;
    •    convey emotions meaning to use the vocabulary correctly and select such arguments which are able to make a strong impression on the reader;
    •    demonstrate knowledge of ethics.
    Generally, an argumentative essay has the following structure:
    •    Introduction;
    •    Body (consisting of Argument, Counterargument, Refutation and new argument);
    •    Conclusion.

    But if you need help with essay that people, like students, would need someone to write my essay for money. The introduction is a kind of paraphrasing of a problem set forth in the assignment. To facilitate the task you can use some common phrases like:
    One of the hot issues much talked about is ...
    Nowadays, there is a growing tendency ... 
    In recent years ... 
    With the development of ...
    The introduction is followed by the first paragraph of the body text that represents an argument, i.e. ideas (usually 2-3) a student agrees with and can back them up with logical evidences and examples. Here it may be necessary to practice brainstorming, mapping/clustering, grouping and outlining. This will help you to outline a plan and to choose appropriate vocabulary. In the body text, you can use both positive and negative examples which will become arguments and counterarguments supported by factual evidences.
    After describing basic ideas of the argumentative essay and supporting them with examples, you can move to the conclusion. The conclusion summarizes the main points of the essay in one or two sentences. Here you also can use some common phrases and expressions:
    Awareness of the problem is the first step … 
    The great challenge today is … 
    It remains further to be discussed …