Writing Arguments
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  • Unit 1: An Introduction to College Writing
    • Academic Writing
    • Writing for Others
    • Being Disconnected
    • Types of Assignments
  • Unit 2: An Academic Mindset
    • Analysis
    • Common Knowledge
    • Burden of Proof
    • Evidence
    • Writing to Learn
  • Unit 3: Building a Basic Argument
    • Primary Claim
    • Supporting Claim
    • Background Statements
    • Elaborations
    • Concessions
  • Unit 4: Common Arguments
    • Arguments of Definition
    • Claims of Fact
    • Claims of Value
    • Claims of Policy
  • Unit 5: Invention Strategies
    • Parallel Case
    • Rebuttal
    • Synthesis
    • Treatment
  • Unit 6: Common Flawed Arguments
    • Agenticity
    • Hasty Generalization
    • False Correlation
    • Enumeration Error
    • Arguing from Anecdote
  • Unit 7: Beyond the First Draft
    • Stalling Out
    • Serial Questioning
    • Revision
    • Editing
  • Special: Argumentation and Debate
This website has been built for a simple reason—to provide college instructors and students with a handbook for college composition courses. This is not an online textbook. However, it is intended to be a website that can replace a textbook. Why?

Take your pick:

  • College textbooks are too expensive, or
  • Most composition textbooks fail to address how students really use writing skills, or
  • Providing college students with another resource to learn argument seemed like a good idea.


Right now, the website is built around Composition I (English 101, Basic Rhetoric, etc.). It is laid out in 7 units, with 3 supplemental units covering information that students probably need to know right away, even though they haven't had a chance to learn them yet. 

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