Read, Reason And Write By Dorothy Sether

Arguments can happen in simple conversations between friends and coworkers. For example, “Sara was trying to convince her friend to join her in the library to study for their upcoming Organic chemistry exam. Sara states that the library is a good place to study because it has textbooks, computers and quiet environment making it the ideal location to study.” In this situation, Sara is trying to convince her friend to join study together for their upcoming organic chemistry test. Sara states several reasons on why they should study in the library such as the library containing textbooks on the given topic. The books will provide several different sources written by professors on the subject. The library will provide several computers where they can get unlimited information on the subject. Also, the library is a quiet environment that can enable maximum concentration on the subject. In this example, an argument is an idea that one is trying to prove to their audience
The author of Read, Reason and Write, Dorothy Sether claims that an argument's purpose is to inform and persuade its reader about an action or idea through the use of summarizing, paraphrasing and direct quoting to prove your reasoning and convince the reader.In college writing assignment, students are required to connect
The act of restating the crucial main points in a writing assignment is called summarizing. In college, students are asked to write papers or deliberate to their classmates on the main points in a text. In this debilitation, one has to explain the writer's diction(word choice/style) by examining the figurative language, sentence patterns and tone the author uses. When summarizing one has to discern the most important ideas in the text; ignore the irrelevant information and integrate the central ideas in a meaningful