Writing the Argumentative Essay
Transform strong opinions into convincing, well-structured essays. Learn how to craft defensible claims, organize clear evidence, and dismantle opposing views.
Like Duolingo, but for Writing the Argumentative Essay. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
21 levels across 3 sections, about 42 minutes end to end, roughly 8 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Making a Defensible Claim, Architecting the Core Essay, and Handling Pushback and Sticking the Landing. It starts from scratch.
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Key ideas in Writing the Argumentative Essay
- A verifiable fact leaves no room for debate or counterargument in an essay
- A personal taste or feeling cannot be proven right or wrong to a skeptical reader
- An arguable claim takes a stand that a reasonable person could disagree with and demand evidence for
- Claims that state obvious general truths make for boring, dead-end essays because nobody disagrees
- A provocative claim stakes out a contested position that compels the reader to look for proof
- An essay's opening needs tension, not universal consensus
- Sweeping words like 'always', 'ruins', or 'all' make a claim easy to dismantle with a single exception
- Adding boundaries like a specific age group, context, or concrete outcome makes an essay's scope manageable
- A narrower claim allows you to provide deep evidence rather than shallow generalities
- A stance without a stated reason tells the reader what you think, but gives no clue how the essay will prove it
- A 'because' clause introduces the core logic or mechanism the body paragraphs must defend
- The reason attached to a claim sets up the roadmap for the entire essay
- A working claim is a starting hypothesis meant to be tested against facts and sources
- Adjusting or qualifying your claim in response to new research makes your final essay stronger and more honest
- Treating a claim as unchangeable leads to ignoring or distorting evidence that doesn't fit
- Evidence supplies verifiable facts or source material to establish that something occurred
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Tomo gives Writing the Argumentative Essay the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
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A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
Why is a statement like 'Vanilla ice cream tastes best' weak for an argumentative essay?
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Where Writing the Argumentative Essay takes you
- 1
Making a Defensible Claim
- From Opinion to Arguable Claim
- Pairing Evidence with Commentary
- 2
Architecting the Core Essay
- Crafting the Thesis Engine
- Building Focused Body Paragraphs
- Logical Transitions and Sentence Flow
- 3
Handling Pushback and Sticking the Landing
- Conceding and Refuting Counterarguments
- Framing the Opening and the Resolution
3 sections · 7 units · 21 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
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