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Mastering General Rules for Effective Argumentative Essays

Learn to craft strong argumentative essays by mastering the art of creating and applying general rules. Understand how to use warrants to support your claims effectively and approach general rules with precision.

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Mastering General Rules for Effective Argumentative Essays

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  1. Argument Writing Moving from persuasive to argumentative essays

  2. General Rule, or Warrant Language & Application, part three

  3. Make a GENERAL RULE. • A general rule is a statement about how something generally goes. • Advice • Can be about cause and effect • You can use qualifications to increase the truth of the statement (mostly, most, many…) • Avoid using a particular person (use: someone, one, somebody…) • Language • In general, • Generally, • Usually, • If…, then… • When (cause)…, (effect)

  4. Make a GENERAL RULE. • A general rule is a statement about how something generally goes. • Advice • Can be about cause and effect • You can use qualifications to increase the truth of the statement (mostly, most, many…) • Avoid using a particular person (use: someone, one, somebody…) • Language • In general, • Generally, • Usually, • If…, then… • When (cause)…, (effect) Evidence: Arthur was legally drunk. General Rule: In general, when someone is legally drunk, he or she has a hard time walking smoothly up and down stairs.

  5. Why warrants? • General Rules are also called warrants. • Warrants are needed to explain how evidence supports the claim.

  6. Approaching a General Rule… • His feet were in a position that looked like his was walking up the stairs instead of down. If he was walking down he would’ve fallen face-front not on his back. • If he had fallen he wouldn’t have fallen like that. • Queenie does not mention anything about food cooking in her story. • Ten minutes give you enough time to kill somebody and to clean up the mess. • If Arthur would have tripped, there would be blood or a wound on Arthur.

  7. Approaching a General Rule… • His feet were in a position that looked like his was walking up the stairs instead of down. If he was walking down he would’ve fallen face-front not on his back. • If he had fallen he wouldn’t have fallen like that. • Queenie does not mention anything about food cooking in her story. • Ten minutes give you enough time to kill somebody and to clean up the mess. • If Arthur would have tripped, there would be blood or a wound on Arthur. Pick one to turn into a general rule. Write the number on the index card.

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