5: Analyzing Arguments
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- 5.2: Narration, Description, and Classification
- This page covers narration, description, and classification within the context of the college essay.
- 5.3: Definition
- This page covers what a definition essay is, what make the best topics for a definition essay, and how to write a definition essay.
- 5.4: Comparison and Contrast
- This page describes and provides examples for how to organize and develop a comparison-contrast essay.
- 5.5: Cause and Effect
- This page explains how to organize and write a cause-effect paper and also explains some of the danger and traps in logical thinking one must be aware of when writing in such a way.
- 5.6: Process Analysis
- This page explains how to write an essay describing a process.
- 5.7: Persuasion
- This page discusses some of the factors in persuasive writing -- such as considering other points of view combined with organization -- that are important for effective persuasive writing.
- 5.9: Writing as Conversation
- This page discusses the role that writing plays to allow people to enter into different discussions (in one time and place or over time) about a given topic.
- 5.10: What is Academic Writing?
- This page discusses the difference between grade school and college-level reading and writing, as well as the demands on the brain for college-level tasks.
- 5.11: Critical Thinking
- This page describes what critical thinking is and how we can use it for problem solving in our academic work and in life.
- 5.12: The Art of Rhetoric
- This page explains the uses and misuses of rhetorical appeals.
- 5.13: Logical Fallacies - How to Spot Them and Avoid Making Them
- This page gives examples of types of logical fallacies and appeals to pathos that are sometimes misused in argumentation.
- 5.14: Rhetorical Analysis
- This page explains what rhetorical analysis is and how we actually do it (or should do it) every day.
- 5.16: Argument
- This page covers the basics of argumentation.
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