Argumentative Essay Persuasive Text Dr Retno Purwani Sari

Argumentative Essay Persuasive Text Dr. Retno Purwani Sari, M. Hum.

ESSAY AS A TEXT Factual Description Introductory Paragraph Body of Paragraph Concluding Paragraph Essay Structure ESSAY Factual recount Persuasive Text Types Literary Poetry Narrative Personal Response Argumentative

Text Types Text are written for a variety of purposes. Three common purposes are: 1. To inform to give information about a specific topic; 2. To persuade to convince the reader to agree with the author’s point of view on a specific topic; and 3. To entertain to amuse and delight; to appeal to the reader’s senses and imagination.

1. American children spend nearly as much time watching TV as they do in school 2. Parents should not allow their children to watch more than two hours of TV each day. 3. I’m very proud to say that my family always sits down to dinner together; there are five of us, my husband me, our son and daughter, and the TV set.

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Argumentative Essay An argumentative essay is written with a purpose to take a position on an issue and give several reasons, supported by evidence, for agreeing with that position.

Read An argumentative example 1 An argumentative example 2

Critical thinking 1. Do both argumentative essays have a straightforward structure of essays? 2. Do they develop an argument? 3. What is thesis statement for each essay? 4. How each essay develop its argument? 5. What facts does each essay use to support its claim? 6. Do these essay use personal opinion and/or experience to back up the point?

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