Argumentative Essay part 1 of 2

Format MLA

Academic Level: –

Volume of 2 pages (550 words)

Assignment type : Essay

Description
Conduct research to identify a topic of debate of your choosing and then conduct guided prewriting using the following steps:
Step One: Topic Identification and Research
Identify a topic relevant to your life and goals. This topic may pertain to your academic program and interests, your current or future career, your specific career goals, or one of your passions in your personal life.
Identify a viable debate within this topic—an arguable concept over which scholars, academics, or professionals in the field may hold differing opinions.
Research your topic in the Capella library and identify two articles that appeal to you and that clearly and firmly present opinions on your topic of choice.
Read the articles several times, taking careful notes on the authors’ viewpoints on your topic.
Step Two: Identify Your Own Stance and Support it
Identify your own stance on the issue, creating a single statement that forwards your argument and that illustrates how your opinion is situated in the larger debate.
Perform structural prewriting for your argumentative essay that focuses on voice, purpose, and audience:
List at least five items in support of your stance, drawing on the argumentative appeals of logic, evidence, and emotion (logos, ethos, and pathos).
List at least two opposing viewpoints or arguments that reasonable, educated scholars, academics, or professionals may make against your stance.
Step Three: Compose
Compose your prewriting for the argumentative essay as Assessment 5. Include the following:
Thesis Statement – Your thesis statement is your stance on the issue in a single statement that forwards your argument and that illustrates how your opinion is situated in the larger debate.
References – The authors and titles of your library articles.
Supporting Viewpoints – Your full list of at least five items in support of your stance, each of which draws on an argumentative appeal of logic, evidence, or emotion.
Opposing Viewpoints – Your full discussion of at least two opposing viewpoints or arguments that reasonable, educated scholars, academics, or professionals may make against your stance.
Bias Statement – A statement of how you will avoid bias in your argument and of how you will carefully consider audience, purpose, and voice.

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