“Argumentation” refers to how well (convincingly) you layout the text-based details and reasoning for your claim and explain the possible stakes of your claim. The two primary areas I look for when assessing the strength of your argument are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1- the clarity and effectiveness of how you organize or layout your argument. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n -Do you provide your reader with all the necessary contextualizing information the need to understand your points?<\/p>\n\n\n\n -Do you present your points in the most effective order?<\/p>\n\n\n\n -Do you clearly introduce the different parts of your argument and how they relate to the overall claim and\/or stakes?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2- the strength and clarity of the logic on and with which you construct your argument. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n -Is the premise of your claim solid?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Often faulty premises can occur: when the objects of analysis is too large or vague; when the object of analysis is not actually text-based; when the claim is not actually about the stated object of analysis; and\/or when the premise is based on some degree of misreading (i.e. making a claim that depends on the paragraph you’re analysis being the first time a character is introduced, when it turns out that the character actually appears in an earlier scene).<\/p>\n\n\n\n – Is the method of illustrating the claim appropriate to the scope of analysis?<\/p>\n\n\n\n – Do you demonstrate an awareness of the limits of its premise\/logic\/and method of arguing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n – Does your method of arguing consist of circular reasoning, begging the question, or some other type of logical fallacy<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Argumentation” refers to how well (convincingly) you layout the text-based details and reasoning for your claim and explain the possible stakes of your claim. The two primary areas I look for when assessing the strength of your argument are: 1- the clarity and effectiveness of how you organize or layout your argument. -Do you provide your … Continue reading What does Argumentation Mean?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121740,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-argument"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/acresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/acresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/acresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/acresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/121740"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/acresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/acresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/acresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/acresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/acresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}