ABSTRACT

At the centre of every quality geographical essay, report or presentation is a wellstructured argument. This is an argument in the sense of a fully supported and referenced explanation of an issue. In producing an argument, you are not looking to provide mathematical proof, or evidence that is strong enough to support a legal case. You are attempting to establish a series of facts and connections that link them, so that your deductions and conclusions appear probable. If you establish enough links and supply the case evidence through real geographical examples, your argument cannot be rejected as improbable (see Bonnett, 2001).