Students are often asked to write arguments beginning in their English classes, but don’t realize that argumentation strategies can be used in many different disciplines, such as defending research, ...

Do your paragraphs present arguments which support your main points as non-debatable or as facts? Do you have adequate and convincing support? Do one or two of your paragraphs present arguments which ...

The Writing Resource Center’s Campus Workshop Series will kick off for the spring with a workshop titled "Argumentation." Attendees will learn more about the characteristics of a sound argument and ...

The new “question-of-the-week” is: How do we teach ELLs formal language and how to write argument essays for the CCSS? Part One’s responses came from Tan Huynh, Vicky Giouroukakis, Maureen Connolly, ...

For at least the last several decades, argumentative writing has been of central importance in secondary and higher education, and this emphasis has been heightened by argumentation's designation as a ...

Originally posted on Curriculum Matters. The results of a two-year study on the National Writing Project, a teacher professional-development program with nearly 200 sites around the country, show that ...

In his celebrated article, John W. Davis, the leading advocate of his time, observed that the supreme objective of a brief is to convince the judicial mind. Davis, The Argument of an Appeal, 26 ...

High school science teachers who want to try an argument-driven approach can find the instructional techniques and materials they need in a free, two-session webinar, “Scientific Argumentation: ...

Last October the comedian-philosopher Jon Stewart did writing teachers a great service. Accosting the hosts of CNN’s Crossfire, Stewart accused them of shortchanging the American public by failing to ...

Watch our webinar about exploring the power and art of writing arguments. By The Learning Network In this 55-minute webinar, recorded live in Oct. 2017, the Times Op-Ed columnist Nicholas Kristof ...

Vol. 24, No. 1/2, Selected Papers from the Duluth Conference on Computers and Writing, and Language Instruction (Feb. - Apr., 1990), pp. 15-41 (27 pages) This study compares pencil-and-paper and ...