Argumentative Writing

The CER writing format is used for what type of writing?

• Narrative

• Argumentative

• Informative

• All writing!

CER stands for...

• Point, Evidence, Analysis

• Correct, Evident Reasoning

• Claim, Evidence, Reasoning

• Claim evident reasons

A claim is...

• The point or thesis of an argument, an opinion statement

• How you support your opinion

• The analysis that shows how you got your answer

• What you need to file to get insurance money

Select the TWO requirements to writing a good claim:

• use words from the prompt aka restate the question

• cite direct evidence from the text

• a statement that answers the prompt

• interpret the main point of the evidence

Evidence to back up your claim should come from

• your brain

• Google

• the prompt

• the text you are analyzing (text: reading, video, graphs, images, etc)

Quotation marks go around evidence to tell the reader...

• that we did not write these words ourselves.

• that we can follow instructions.

• that someone said the evidence out loud.

• that this is an opinion statement.

The TWO things good reasoning does are

• cite direct evidence from the text

• interpret the main point of the evidence

• use words from the prompt to answer the prompt

• explain how the evidence proves the claim

Properly cited evidence has what three things?

• signal phrase

• quotation marks

• page number in parenthesis

• words from the prompt

Citing a page number or paragraph number is important because....

• We will get less points on our paragraph for not including it.

• It tells the reader why the evidence is important

• It tells the reader where they can find the evidence in the text.

• It answers the prompt.

What is the author's purpose of an ARGUMENTATIVE PAPER?

• To inform the reader about a topic

• Entertain the reader with a story

• Argue for/against a topic

• Describe using the five senses