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  Volume 3 - Number 1 Spring 2002  
  Argument  

 

 

A Note to Readers

Argument—making a claim and supporting it with evidence—is an essential element in academic conversation, and it is the theme of this issue of Writing Across Berkeley. Our writers address the central components of argument, as well as specific ways of teaching argument in the classroom. The idea of argument has different implications in different disciplines, so we have asked a few Berkeley faculty to explain what they consider the most important component of a successful argument in their field. Their answers may surprise you.

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In This Issue

button image Argumentative Alchemy: Writing to Persuade an Opposition Audience

button image Teaching Argument Through Debate

button image The Essentials of Argument

button image Campus Voices

button image Campus Writing Resources

 

   

 

  Writing Across Berkeley is part of a campuswide conversation about writing: we'd love to hear from our readers. If you want to respond to one of the articles, have ideas for future pieces, would like to write for WAB, or have some language peeves to air, please email Gail Offen-Brown at gob@berkeley.edu.  
  Editors: Sarah Stone, Gail Offen-Brown
Print Graphic Design: Elise Evans
Online Design: Carolyn Hill
Staff: Fadia Damon, Carmen Reed

 

 

 

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