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Short and concise notes on conponets of argumentative essays. Help with breaking down difficult topics such as rhetorical situation

The basics on different strategies on how to support an argument in your writing.

This document highlights how to go about writing a review. How to use audience and context, as well as a roadmap to the differnt components that make up a review.

This document summerises rhetorical situation and breaks the topic down. It outlines how to incorperate rhetoric into your writing. Such as how to use purpose, context, stance and lanaguage.

Reading Rhetorically outlines strategies for critical and intentional reading, focusing on understanding a text's purpose, audience, and genre. It emphasizes techniques like annotating, identifying main points, and engaging actively with unfamiliar or complex material. The document encourages readers to approach texts with an open mind, consider the context, and think like writers, analyzing rhetorical choices and evidence across different disciplines.

The document Quoting, Paraphrasing, Summarizing provides guidelines for effectively using these techniques to integrate sources into writing. It explains when to quote directly, how to paraphrase accurately without mimicking the original too closely, and how to summarize key ideas concisely. The document includes formatting tips for quotations and emphasizes the importance of avoiding plagiarism while maintaining the original meaning and authority of the source.

The document Analyzing and Constructing Arguments serves as a guide to understanding and creating effective arguments. It covers key components like identifying claims, supporting them with logical appeals (logos) through evidence such as facts and statistics, and addressing counterarguments. The text explores methods of persuasion (ethos and pathos), common fallacies to avoid (like ad hominem and slippery slope arguments), and various argument structures, including Toulmin and Rogerian approach...