WEEK-34-KEY-STRUCTURAL-ELEMENTS-AND-LANGUAGE-FEARTURES-OF-ARGUMENTATIVE-TEXT.pptx

English

1. Carla : That was a lousy performance! Jimmy : Why? Carla :The background music was inappropriate and the performers lacked facial expressions. Jimmy : I thought that was good enough because all the cast have mastered their lines. Carla : Yes, they have mastery but their actions were obviously not internalized which made the overall Performance unrealistic. Study the dialogue and observe the exchange of conversation of two students after watching an entry in a talent show.

2. Carla :That was a lousy performance! Jimmy :Why? Carla :The background music was inappropriate and the performers lacked facial expressions. Jimmy :I thought that was good enough because all the cast have mastered their lines. Carla :Yes, they have mastery but their actions were obviously not internalized which made the overall Performance unrealistic. 1. What are the two students talking about? 2. What are they doing in the entire conversation? 3. What was Carla’s stand about the performance? 4. What about Jimmy’s stand? Did he agree with Carla? 5. What was Carla trying to prove? Questions:

3. Key Structural Elements and Language Features of an Argumentative Text May L. Bulan

4. What is an argument? An ARGUMENT is a reasoned and logical way of demonstrating the writer’s position, belief or conclusion is valid. In English, students make claims about the worth of meaning of literary works, defending their interpretation with evidence from the text.

5. What is an argument? In short, it seeks to persuade a reader or listener by presenting one side of an argument. By taking a point of view and justifying it, we aim to convince others to see only that side of an issue.

6. Purpose of an Argument To present one side of an argument and persuade the reader or listener to agree or take action to solve the problem.

7. Essays Editorials Letters to the editor Arguments can be presented as: Speeches

8. Argumentative Text A type of writing that requires a writer to defend a position (can be for or against ) on a topic using evidence from personal experience, literature, historical examples and research to support his or her viewpoint.

9. Argumentative Text In short, it is a kind of writing that aims to convince the readers to agree with the author’s point of view.

10. Key Structural Elements of an Argumentative Text Introduction/exposition usually introduces the problem and gives necessary background information. This part also contains the thesis statement or the claim which states the position of the writer about a particular topic or issue. The thesis statement is usually the last sentence of the introduction.

11. Key Structural Elements of an Argumentative Text The body is the part of the argumentative text where you work on your arguments . It presents your reasons about your stated position. Every reason is usually the topic sentence in each paragraph which is backed up with evidences in the form of examples, statistics, personal experiences or quotations. You can have 2-3 strong arguments in your body. You may also add a paragraph to discredit opposing arguments or counterclaim. This part is called refutation which you also need to back up with evidences.

12. Key Structural Elements of an Argumentative Text The conclusion is found in the final paragraph of an argumentative text. It restates the position and gives one or two general statements to summarize the arguments which support the main claim.

13. 1 2 3 BODY CONCLUSION INTRODUCTION Key Structural Elements of an Argumentative Text = = =

14. modal verbs adverbs evaluative language conjunctions Declarative statements Language is an essential consideration in writing an argumentation. Language Features of an Argumentative Text Rhetorical questions Passive voice

15. Read the argumentative text and extract the elements to complete the table that follows.