{"id":482,"date":"2020-06-17T14:46:04","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T14:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/writing-workshop\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=482"},"modified":"2024-04-25T01:09:39","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T01:09:39","slug":"introduction-to-academic-argument","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1coreq\/chapter\/introduction-to-academic-argument\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction to Academic Argument","rendered":"Introduction to Academic Argument"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>What you'll learn to do: explain how to build an academic argument<\/h2>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<img class=\"wp-image-1281 size-medium alignnone aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5208\/2020\/06\/29170841\/presenting-300x300.png\" alt=\"Woman presenting an idea with a white board\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/>\r\n\r\nIn this Writing Workshop, you will practice the overlapping and integrated skills of building an argument. 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Then you will move on to building a thesis that is: debatable, assertive, reasonable, evidence-based, and focused.\r\n\r\nOnce you have practiced developing a thesis and reviewed the structures and elements of an argument, you will feel more confident about your ability to persuade readers through your writing and take on the prompts given by your instructor.","rendered":"<h2>What you&#8217;ll learn to do: explain how to build an academic argument<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1281 size-medium alignnone aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5208\/2020\/06\/29170841\/presenting-300x300.png\" alt=\"Woman presenting an idea with a white board\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In this Writing Workshop, you will practice the overlapping and integrated skills of building an argument. 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Then you will move on to building a thesis that is: debatable, assertive, reasonable, evidence-based, and focused.<\/p>\n<p>Once you have practiced developing a thesis and reviewed the structures and elements of an argument, you will feel more confident about your ability to persuade readers through your writing and take on the prompts given by your instructor.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-482\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li><strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Marcella Lapriore for Lumen Learning. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Shared previously<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Presenting. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: 5four. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blackillustrations.com\/\">https:\/\/www.blackillustrations.com\/<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em>Other<\/em>. <strong>License Terms<\/strong>: https:\/\/www.blackillustrations.com\/licensing-agreement<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":161083,"menu_order":2,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"Presenting\",\"author\":\"\",\"organization\":\"5four\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.blackillustrations.com\/\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"other\",\"license_terms\":\"https:\/\/www.blackillustrations.com\/licensing-agreement\"},{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"\",\"author\":\"Marcella Lapriore for Lumen Learning\",\"organization\":\"Lumen Learning\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"d27a24dd-bb09-477a-922a-62332c56b0d9","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-482","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":353,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1coreq\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1coreq\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1coreq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1coreq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161083"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1coreq\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1282,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1coreq\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/482\/revisions\/1282"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1coreq\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/353"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1coreq\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/482\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1coreq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1coreq\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1coreq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1coreq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}