ABSTRACT
This chapter provides only a few of the most basic templates novice researchers need to know, but if they find this helpful, then buy a copy of their excellent book. To learn argumentative writing, it is best to compare it to something novice researchers already know how to do: having a conversation. Once the time comes to expand on each claim, novice researchers will want to ensure that novice researchers’ writing has an intellectual and argumentative quality. To write any complex argument made up of many smaller arguments, especially those in the chapters that follow, novice researchers need to master two skills: discovering the smaller arguments inside a larger argument; and connecting those smaller arguments logically. To find smaller arguments, novice researchers must first know what novice researchers’ overall message, their thesis or overall claim is. This becomes the 'seed' from which novice researchers will grow the smaller arguments.
