21st September 2010
We were happy to see Mr. Vahid came back again to guide us, though it was only for one short tutoring session. Thanks to Mr. Vahid, we finally knew how to write our position paper.
To begin with, Mr. Vahid defined what an argumentative writing is. According to him, it is an action of “making a claim or taking a position”, “providing proof in its support”, and “accounting for the probable objection”. Before this, I never thought of including the last stage, as I perceived argumentative writing as some sort of a debate. Luckily, Mr. Vahid told us that if objections for the issue are not acknowledged, the argumentative writing we produced will be a biased argumentative writing.
After that, Mr. Vahid also taught us how to write a good argumentative writing by including a few elements, which some we never heard before, i.e. claim, data, bridge, rebuttal and qualifiers.
The whole lesson was an enjoyable one, especially when Dr. Jaya treat us with KFC at the end of the lesson. Thank you so much, Dr. Jaya and Mr. Vahid!
Hi there,
ReplyDeleteThe lesson on argumentative writing is really informative. During the lecture, Mr.Vahid had explain precisely o argumentative writing, the elements of good arguments and how to argue effectively.It helps me a lot in writing my position paper since I need to argue on the selected issue.