Purpose, Structure, and Content

Each section of an academic essay has a specific purpose, and, therefore, a specific structure is required for the content. 

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If you have written an essay and the instructor states that the academic writing standards not being met, then this means that you are struggling with the basics for academic writing.  Therefore, you will want to spend extra time learning about the purpose, structure, and content of different areas of an academic essay.

Crafting an Argument Essay

Death of the "Walk-through" Essay

WRITING YOUR OWN ESSAY WITH YOUR OWN ARGUMENT

A common structural flaw in college ARGUMENT essays is the "walk-through" essay.  Some instructors will note this incorrect writing style as “report writing,” the “issue summary” writing, or even the “issue description” writing). You will not want to write a “walk-through” essay.  You want to write a clearly logical argument essay in academic writing classes. 

Writing Clear Topic Sentences

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Topic Sentences

Creating well-developed topic sentences for an argument body paragraph

Ethical Reasoning

The Logical FLOW for Ethical Reasoning 

in an Argument

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Ethical reasoning is logical thought based on a clearly identified, specific ethical belief system.  

If I wanted to write an argument about ethical hiring practices, I could assert my reasoning in a logical way using ethical beliefs from the American Constitution and the Bill of Rights. 

If I wanted to write about any ethical issue, I would first need to decide on a specific ethical standard from which I would be arguing pre-set ethics as well as outside sources that defend that ethical standard to assert my ethical argument.

As Rotimi Fawole succintly states, “If you want your conclusions to be accepted, you need to give valid, logical, reasons why” (2012).