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Mastering Persuasive Argumentation: Steps to Strengthen Your Reasoning Skills

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Unlock your potential to persuade and influence through effective argumentation. This guide outlines crucial steps for constructing compelling arguments that resonate with your audience. Begin by clearly identifying your purpose and claim, and support your assertions with solid evidence, such as statistics and expert opinions. Learn to engage with opposing viewpoints by making concessions and developing thoughtful rebuttals. Master the art of reasoning to build credible and persuasive arguments that inspire your readers to believe, change, or take action.

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Mastering Persuasive Argumentation: Steps to Strengthen Your Reasoning Skills

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  1. Strengthen your reasoning abilities • Construct persuasive arguments • Your goal is to get readers to believe, change or act

  2. What is an argument? • A reason (or chain of reasons) used to support a claim • Arrange in logical sequence • Support with evidence

  3. Building an argument: Step 1 • Prepare your argument: • Identify your purpose (Take a position? Call to action? Offer solution?)

  4. Building an argument: Step 1 • Prepare your argument: • Use reasoning, linking ideas in logical sequence • Gather solid evidence

  5. Building an argument: Step 2 • State your claim • Assert that something is true, has value, or should be done

  6. Building an argument: Step 3 • Support your claim • Support each point with solid evidence

  7. Building an argument: Step 4 • Engage the opposition • Make concessions • Develop rebuttals • Use appropriate appeals

  8. Making a claim • Arguments center on a claim, a key point you wish to explain, defend. • It’s clearly arguable • It’s defendable • It’s understandable

  9. Making a claim • Distinguish claims from facts and opinions

  10. Making a claim • Distinguish claims from facts and opinions • Claim: The film version of The Fellowship of the Rings captures the spirit of Tolkien’s novel.

  11. Develop a supportable claim • Avoid claims that are obvious, trivial, or unsupportable • Use qualifiers • Balance confidence with common sense

  12. Develop a supportable claim • Gather evidence • Anecdotes • Statistics • Tests • Graphics • Analogies • Expert testimony • Examples

  13. Engage the opposition • Make concessions • By acknowledging opposition’s valid points, you build credibility

  14. Engage the opposition • Develop rebuttals • Look for small, tactful argument aimed at weakness in opposing argument

  15. Engage the opposition • Be logical • Aim to motivate, not manipulate • If readers find your evidence complex, simple, or strange, you’ve lost them

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