Argumentative Essay Breakdown

Here’s how your argumentative essay outline would look if you turned it into a pretty picture: Let’s break down the four elements and take a look at what needs to be incorporated into each.

Your first sentence is comprised of a hook that grabs readers’ attention just like a good Jackie Chan movie grabs the attention of a martial arts fan.

Below are 3 different patterns that you can consider.

Also, beneath these are 3 additional outlines that you can print and fill in.

Currently, people in the United States shun the idea of eating insects as part of their diets, favoring instead less nutritious and environmentally destructive food options, such as beef and pork.

The UN has even issued a statement calling for more world citizens to embrace the many benefits of eating insects.

Body Paragraph 3: Present your first point and supporting evidence.

Body Paragraph 4: Present your second point and supporting evidence.

What experiences have caused the writer to become interested (careful using 1st person! ______________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________ Background Information, including history and context for problem: ___________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________ Thesis - Claim: __________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________ How you will appeal to Ethos: _______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________ Refutation or Opposing Arguments (Explain them, explain how and why there may be value in them, and disagree with the parts you believe to be invalid.

Establish common ground): ______________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________ Evidence to support your claim, including appeal to logos, and pathos.