An argument is not a fight. The art of argumentation—the ability to construct, present, and defend a thesis effectively – is at the heart of of academic discourse. The skill of crafting a compelling ...

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 ...

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, ...

Journal for Research in Mathematics Education. Monograph, Vol. 14, A Study of Teaching: Multiple Lenses, Multiple Views (2008), pp. 97-126 (30 pages) ...

The Brigham Young University Debate Team recently attended the 2008 University of Wyoming Debate Cooperative in Laramie, Wyo., where nearly 50 students took part in workshops and labs that were ...

Scholastic arguments, sacred texts and disciplined reasoning meet in books that reveal how medieval thinkers shaped belief, ...

The foundation of effective academic argumentation is a well-structured thesis. To build one, do the following: 1. Identify Your Central Claim: Your thesis should present a clear, arguable claim that ...