Language and Composition: The Art of Voice (Muller and Whiting)

Chapter 3: Argumentation and Synthesis

Catalyst Skills Links

Catalyst 2.0 is a Web-based, collaborative, assisted writing environment designed to help you improve your academic writing and research skills. The links below will help you as you work through the assignments in this chapter.

Writing Tutor—Arguments is a step-by-step tool that helps you craft a polished argument essay. It has a wizard, grammar function, and examples. It starts by showing you how to analyze an argument, and takes you all the way through the writing and editing process.

Sample Argument Papers provide you with two examples of effective arguments.