Argumentative Writing

As its name suggests, argumentative writing is writing that sets forth an argument. That is to say, it advances a writer's opinion or belief about an issue, and it attempts to persuade an audience that this opinion is correct. It does so by suporting the opinion with information given in the form of reasons and examples. The information is often arranged in terms of its importance as evidance. In either begins with the least important infotmation and buils up to the most important, or works the other way arround, from the most important to the least. Argumentative writing also makes frequnt use of the technique of comparison and contrast.

Argumentative writing has much in common with both narrative and descriptive writing. Like much narrative writing, if frequently grows out of the writer's personal experience, like descriptive writing, it often uses examlpes to develop that experience. Moreover, the movement in descriptive writing from general to spesific is one that appears in much argumentative writing. A typical argumentative paragraph is represented by the following model:
Topic sentence: expressed as an opinion
Development: presented in the form of three or four relevant reasons and examlpes. 

In summary, the following are the most common characteristics of argumentative writing:
1. It gives the writer's opinion about an issue.
2. It  attempts to persuade an audience by means of information in the form of reasons and examples.
3. The information is arranged in terms of its importance to the argument, either from least to most important, or from most to least.