Writing quality argumentative essays is one of the most transcendental intellectual skills in the formation of the university student since, practically, in all the university disciplines the main objective is to develop the students’ ability to read, construct, understand and evaluate arguments, whether written or oral. In addition, one of the purposes of adequate argumentation is to sustain what is expressed to convince others to accept and adhere to certain ideas on a topic or to dissuade them from opposing opinions.
The drawback is that generally due to ignorance, fear, rejection or apathy, people do not perform appropriate argumentative practices, in this sense; written work produced within the university context must follow a series of specific rules, different from those used in other texts. As literary or informative, to achieve adequate efficiency! These guidelines are related to both the style of writing and how to present the work, especially if it is written to be published, among them are:
1) To delimit the topic so as not to fall into inconsistencies or redundancies, the students generally refuse to delimit the topic because they are worried about not having enough to develop, but the more delimited it is, the easier it will be to write the essay.
2) Determine a thesis (point of view) on the topic or controversy. In this sense, one might ask: Is this a controversy or issue that has not been resolved? Could it inspire two or more points of view? Is it willing to consider a position different from yours and perhaps modify its point of view on the question? Is the issue significant enough to make it worthwhile to spend your time? Can you obtain information and generate novel and convincing approaches to this issue? Or can you get a clear and limited view of the issue, even if it is complicated?
3) Understand the interests of the audience: What is the target audience? What characterizes it? Will they be convinced? Will they get angry? Will they pay attention? What are the expected results? What special limiting circumstances? Will they influence the responses of the audience? What beliefs, attitudes, people, prejudices, habits or traditions limit their perceptions about the issue or thesis? …
4) Use a functional language, this means that precise, direct, appropriate, clear and simple words must be used, in order to explain situations or terms which could be complex, confusing or incomprehensible for a non-specialized reader. The rules of precision, conciseness and clarity guarantee the agility of the text and facilitate its reading:
Precise: It is necessary to use precise and unambiguous terms. Remember that synonyms do not have the same meaning, because they depend on context and culture.
Coherent: The direction and unit of the essay are determined to a large extent by the logical articulation given to sentences and paragraphs. Still confused, have a look at the collegepaperworld.com!
Consistent: An essay acquires consistency in your body when presenting the arguments does not admit contradictions, in this way the text appears natural, spontaneous, clear and precise.
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