University:
Boston University
Course:
CAS PH 630 | American Philosophy
Academic year:

2023
Views:

51

Pages:

1
Author:

Patricia West

Elements of Argument Claim: What do you want to convince the reader of? Reasons: Why should your reader believe that? Evidence: How do you know that? Acknowledgment and Response: Have you considered others’ views? Start by asking good, arguable questions and answer them in order to get ideas for your claim. Once you have established your claim, make a list of reasons for why you think that claim is true. Once you have a list of reasons, search for specific quotations, observations and statistics depending on the nature of your paper. If you cannot find evidence for your reason, replace the reason. Does anything complicate or contradict your argument? Acknowledge it!