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Building your own argument
Turning analysis into craft. Developing a clear contention, sequencing arguments that build, and choosing evidence that lands with a specific audience — the same tools you analyse, now used to persuade.
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Persuasive writing works like stacking a sandwich.
Writing to persuade is writing for one specific person you've thought hard about. Everything else follows from knowing who's reading.
Your ideas sit loose — good points with nothing holding them up.
You stack claim, evidence and reasoning in a deliberate order.
Layers lock into one contention the reader can bite into.
what examiners catch — Students frequently present disconnected arguments without a unifying contention or fail to link evidence back to their main claim, resulting in fragmented rather than cumulative persuasion.
what you leave with
four things, not forty.
Develop a clear, defensible contention
Sequence arguments to build momentum
Choose evidence that suits the audience
Anticipate and address counter-arguments
what's underneath
nothing here is a standalone fact.
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this conceptbuilding your own argumentConstructing persuasive writing involves establishing a clear contention upfront, ordering supporting arguments in a logical sequence that escalates impact, and selecting evidence that resonates with your identified audience.
sits under itfinding the contentionbecause construct what you can deconstruct — the two doors
built on itstructural architecture of persuasive textsbecause architecture arranges the argument
built on itpoint of view spoken aloudbecause Reasons, evidence and rebuttal come first; this picture shows how to shape them for a listener.
the rest of persuasive writing
4 more, same treatment.
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audience analysis and contextual positioningin the apprhetorical appeals as persuasive mechanismsin the appstructural architecture of persuasive textsin the appwriting for an audiencein the app
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