Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Main elements of
argumentative and
comparative essays
- Body
- Argumentative
- Each paragraph contains
- Topic sentence
- Proves the argument
- Evidence
- Supports the topic sentence
- Through citations or
statistics
- Concluding
sentence
- Helps understand better the claim
- has a counterargument
paragraph
- Anticipates reader's objection
- Contains arguments against the claim
- Comparative
- can be arranged in 3 possible ways
- Half and half of the paragraphs
for each comparison
- Alternation between subjects
- Allows discussion of points in greater detail
- Half and half of the
main body
- More problematic
- Introduction
- Argumentative
- General overview
- Interesting
- Contains bacckground
information
- States the claim at the
end of the paragraph
- Comparative
- general to specific
- declares the
preference
- Understandable
- Interensting
- Conclusion
- Argumentative
- divided in two
- Sum up paragraph
- Reminds the argument
- Reestates the claim
- " So what paragraph"
- Shows the critical and analytical
thinking
- It is the climax
- different of the introduction
- Comparative
- Is the summary of the most important
differences and similarities
- Contains the personal statement or
opinion about the issue
- Explains the importance of
the comparison