Argumentative v. Persuasive & Plagiarism

Completely based on a person's opinion

• Argumentative

• Persuasive

Your opinion is based on facts

• Argumentative

• Persuasive

Includes a "claim": Your side of the argument

• Argumentative

• Persuasive

Uses pronouns, "I", "me", "you" while talking to get opinion across to the reader

• Argumentative

• Persuasive

You understand that the other person has a valid opinion (of their own) but you use facts to prove them wrong

• Argumentative

• Persuasive

Is this sentence argumentative or persuasive? "I think people should not have to wear school uniforms because they are ugly and annoying"

• Argumentative

• Persuasive

Is this sentence argumentative or persuasive? "Students should not have to wear uniforms in schools because they are expensive, and parents have to provide the uniforms for their child themselves."

• Argumentative

• Persuasive

What is plagiarism?

• Quoting a source without citing it

• Passing somebody else's work off as your own

• Stealing somebody's intellectual property

• All of the above

When you use an authors EXACT words in your essay with a citation, that is called....

• Paraphrasing

• Quoting

• Sourcing

• Cheating

You can avoid plagiarism by....

• Never using quotation marks

• Never using information from a book/online source

• Using AI

• Citing where the information came from