This week’s topics
What makes a reliable academic argument: evidence, premise and conclusion
- Evidence
- Premise (nature of academic argument)
- Conclusion
What you will be able to do
- 4.1 Explain the key components of a reliable and valid academic argument.
Activity
Start with this week’s 4 videos, then discuss how they apply to this week’s topic and note one example from a real business.
Study materials
Videos
- Planning an analytical response · Oak National Academy, Key Stage 3 (lower secondary level) · plays on Oak’s website · for registered students
- How to Write an Essay: 4 Minute Step-by-step Guide | Scribbr 🎓 · YouTube · Scribbr · 4 min · for registered students
- How to Write an Academic Essay in 10 Minutes or Less · YouTube · David Taylor · 11 min · for registered students
- How to Write a Report: 7-Step Guide · YouTube · Grammarly · 5 min · for registered students
Further resources
- Writing Guide with Handbook, ch. 10.5: Writing process – creating a position argument · PDF · OpenStax (2021), section 10.5 on planning, drafting and redrafting an argument essay; pp. 327–342 · for registered students
- College Success, ch. 7.4: Critical thinking · PDF · OpenStax (2020), section 7.4 on questioning claims, evidence and assumptions; pp. 211–213 · for registered students
- Say more and be more coherent: text elaboration, cohesion and writing quality · Open-access article · Crossley & McNamara (2016), Journal of Writing Research. Essays improved when writers added supporting detail and clearer links between ideas. · for registered students
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