How your topic can be developed into an argument.

It is how you can show the reader what you are thinking, what your views are and how you have engaged critically with the topic being discussed. You can do this by building an effective and persuasive argument for your reader. If you don’t use your voice you give information that have already been established instead of proving that you critically engage with the write sources and foundation.

How do you make an argument? By being critical, questioning and understand how to have a balanced view of the opposite arguments, you have to prove to your audience that you have the ability to be understanding and to have previously looked at different parameters to establish what you are saying.

Each paragraph has to follow a structure to guide your reader in a logical way; try to answer and prevent what the reader might ask and write it in the Thesis.

–The key elements of an argument include the following:–

Statement of problem–

Literature review

–Precise focus of your research stated as a hypothesis, question, aim, or objective

–Method and methodology–

Results/evidence

–Discussion and conclusion (including implications for future research)

(For the literature review conclusion restate the question and how the literature and the sources you are going to use will bring you to a conclusion, showing that there are accepted ideas that you are using and that you have a potential to question them or reinforce them)

–Include your own voice in your writing. Your voice will emerge through your discussion, interpretation, and evaluation of the sources.– Make your unattributed (not referenced) assertion at the start of paragraphs followed by evidence, findings, arguments from your sources.

–Consider areas of professional and academic development that motivates your study. –Feel empowered that your contemporary experience and position for inquiry can add to existing research possibly challenge and even contest established canons.–The solution beyond all others is subject knowledge through extensive reading, sourcing and testing where necessary. –Feel confident that the motivation, critique and objective for the research is achievable.

What are the steps to developing an academic argument?

Make sure you have a premise a reason for you argument and evidence to support it.

–Clearly state your contention (the main point an argument is trying to prove, usually a belief outlined in the thesis statement of an introduction) in a thesis statement within your introduction.– Identify the important reasons/premises of your argument.  A reason is evidence given to support the contention. Every reason has premises, and each must be true for the reason to support the contention.– Identify possible objections (a ‘reason’ that a contention is false; evidence against a contention) to your argument.  –Research evidence that supports your reasons and/or reduces objections.– Structure your argument so your points logically lead to your conclusion.– Clearly state your conclusion (the proven contention) bringing together your thesis statement and the supporting points.

In the literature review engage in the research and establish new research, by identify the limitations of other resources. Find strands of other phenomena to add to them (Psychology, mental health…).