ENGL1011 Wk5 Developing Arguments

Multiple Choice

Why is it important to support and develop an academic argument in your writing?

• It helps to make your writing more persuasive and credible.

• It allows you to avoid using evidence in your writing.

• It makes your writing less organized.

• It is not necessary for academic success.

Open Ended

Change the below opinion into an argument. You just need to write one sentence which includes your main points.

Social media is dangerous.

Multiple Choice

What are the key steps involved in stating and supporting an argument in academic writing?

• Express the argument in the topic sentence, provide reasoning and evidence, explain how the evidence supports the argument, and conclude the paragraph.

• Start with a personal story, use informal language, and avoid providing evidence.

• List as many facts as possible without explanation.

• Only present your opinion without any supporting evidence.

Let's look at each part:

POINT: Introduce your main point to support your position (view). There should be the topic and controlling idea.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) can significantly enhance personalized learning in education.

Let's look at each part:

Evidence: Provide relevant evidence or examples to support your point. 

For instance, AI-powered platforms can adapt to a student’s learning pace, show areas of weakness, and provide targeted practice exercises (Ali, 2023).

Let's look at each part:

Explain your point and how it is relevant to what you are writing about.

This is important because it allows learners to receive individualized instruction, which is often difficult to achieve in large classrooms. As a result, students may develop a stronger understanding of content, and teachers can use the data to better support their progress.

Let's look at each part:

Link back to your argument/ claim and give advice/an opinion/ a prediction

To conclude, AI can personalize and thus improve the learning experience, so it should be included in all curriculums in the future.

Multiple Select

Which of the following are signal/transition words that help with the cohesion of a paragraph?

• For instance

• As a result

• To conclude

• All of the above

Multiple Choice

Is the language used in the paragraph about Artificial Intelligence strong or tentative?

• Strong

• Tentative

• Both strong and tentative

• Neither

Open Ended

Describe how the P-E-E-L structure helps in developing an academic argument. Use examples from the slides to support your answer.

For each of these short paragraphs, identify the PEEL structure.

Bold the POINT.
Put the EVIDENCE in italics.
Underline the EXPLANATION
Highlight the LINK in yellow (if there is one)

Suggested Answers:

Multiple Choice

Which phrase would be most appropriate to introduce evidence in an academic paragraph?

• For example,

• In my opinion,

• I believe that

• It is obvious that