Essay Structure Outline

ENGLISH NAME

STUDENT NUMBER

WORD COUNT (do not include the argument maps and the passage. Your word count should be about 800 words or so. My examples are quite a bit longer, but I wanted to give you more details)

PASSAGE (Copy the entire passage)

ARGUMENT(S) FOR MAIN CONCLUSION 1

STANDARD FORM

Write down your finished argument reconstruction in standard form

Underline anything you have added to the argument

ARGUMENT MAP

Draw an argument map for the argument. Underline anything you have added to the argument. Your argument map should match the standard form.

ASSESSMENT OF ARGUMENT(S) FOR MAIN CONCLUSION 1

Assess all of the reconstructed arguments for the main conclusion – How convinced are you by the argument? (do you have any confidence that that the main conclusion is true on the basis of the author’s premises?). Assess the structure and the premises.

ARGUMENT(S) FOR MAIN CONCLUSION X

STANDARD FORM

ARGUMENT MAP

ASSESSMENT OF ARGUMENT(S) FOR MAIN CONCLUSION X

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CONCLUSION

Sum up your assessment of the author’s arguments – have they given you any confidence that the main conclusion(s) is (are) true?