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, ...

Throughout my development as a secondary English teacher, I’ve found fiction and poetry effective in teaching students that reading literature can impact their lives. Over the past few years, though, ...

Dry. Proscriptive. Wordy. Jargony. Boring. Many words have been used to describe scientific writing, very few of which would excite a reader to take a closer look into the contents of a paper. With ...

If you still think you can’t write an argumentative essay, think again. Remember the last time you convinced your roommate to get the pizza topping you like. Or that time you ranted on TikTok about ...

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: ...

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, ...

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 ...

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Famed author and University of Chicago alumna Susan Sontag, AB’51, once wrote: “I write—and talk—in order to find out what I think.” A new course in the College is allowing first-years to put that ...

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: ...