Argumentative Essay

Apa yang susah lahanat nak buat argumentative essay ni? Kau rasa susah ke? Nak buat 'menatang' essay adalah yang paling kacang ko tau tak? Lain lah ko kena rangkai essay pasal personal anecdotes ke true story ke fairy tales memang payah! Ni ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY weh!

First thing first sebelom ko nak menulih essay, of course lah ko kena fikir topik apa yang ko nak merepek tu. Fikir panjang-panjang nak tulih topik apa. Dah fikir pasal topik, TOLONGLAH pegi read up ALL the information that you need to write up the freaking essay.

Boleh tak, jangan dok caca marba copy segala benda dari internet, baling sekelompot atas A4 paper tu! Dengan takde organizationnya, dengan tak paham lahanat apa ko merepek, main points ke laut, examples tak relevan, yang lagi sedih apa? Main points LANGSUNG TAKDE!

Nak tahu kenapa yang aku menyirap sangat? This goes to the whole 13 weeks aku berbuih mulut mengajar ko "opposing views", "rebuttal", "refuting", tapi satu bijik haram pon ko tak paham! Bila aku tanya "thesis statement" ko mana, why the heck yang ko bagi aku @$(^%^)#%@_???

Lagi menyirap ko datang kelas aku, tak siap assignment and started to show me craps and show that bajet-lawa-face!

Anywaysssssss...aku still nak ajar ko apa maksudnya argumentative essay tu. In the essay, we are not only giving information but also presenting an argument with the supporting ideas and the opposing ideas of an argumentative issue. Paham?

Lagi? Ko kena lah jugak take your stand and write as if ko nak persuade readers yang oppose dengan views ko so that dia adopt new beliefs and behaviour yang ko cuba sampaikan. The main objective pulak tentulah sebab ko nak betol-betol tukar beliefs that many of them do not want to change.

So, argumentative dengan informative essay ni memang JAUH berbezanya. Informative tu pegi lantak lah ko nak inform pasal apa sekali pun tapi takde referencing dari mana-mana acceptable sources janji orang happy dengan info yang ko bagi. TAPI argumentative essay ni seharusnya lah ARGUE, STAND UP for atau PERTAHANKAN points ko yang strong so people won't easily change your ideas and plan of development.

Senang bukan? ke tak paham lagi? Takpe lah kalau tak paham jugak lagi. Meh sini "akak" bagi ko contoh okay?

Contoh lah okay ko nak buat argumentative essay ko pasal this Reiki regime.

Thesis: Do Reiki instead of taking medicine.

Counter arguments

Refutation

1.

People should trust medicine since it is effective and scientifically proven.

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Reiki is also scientifically proven and does not have side effects. (refutation method: insufficient claim)

2.

Serious illnesses such as HIV/AIDS and cancer cannot be treated without medicine.

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Medicine also cannot treat serious illnesses if not diagnosed at an early stage. (refutation method: opponents are partially correct)

3.

Reiki, like alternative healing methods, requires a lot of time.

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Reiki requires less time if done regularly. (refutation method: opponents are completely wrong)


Dah paham? Tak jugak? Nah, ko pegi baca sample essay kat sini.

Okay lah eh?

Harapnya korang paham lah ye Joyah, Minah, Pe'ah. And please don't give me ^%$@*&#%()!*&) dah after this. Next week, last gua accept korang punya assignment. No more drafts, no more editing. Kalau asyik dengan editing jek, bila masa nak buat presentationnya?


ps. yang tak hantar-hantar assignment 1 dengan journal tu, tak tau-tau lagi kena buat apa? ke nak "akak" jadik singa lagi?

peace out.






Comments

  1. teacher garang..kakukkkkkk

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  2. harus garang. tapi selalunya, aku tak lah garang mana.. mellow jek. tapi ni dah lebey! tggl 2 weeks nk abeh tak siap2 karangan nye. 2000 words jek pon!

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  3. akak yg garang... nak ngorat boleyh... ahahaha

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  4. weh tekanan weh kalo baca essay dorg. bley rasa marah yg mencengkam hati dan jiwa.

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