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  2. The Common Topics - Wikipedia

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    Topics (c. 350 BC) De Inventione (84 BC) Rhetorica ad Herennium (80 BC) De Oratore (55 BC) A Dialogue Concerning Oratorical Partitions (c. 50 BC) De Optimo Genere Oratorum (46 BC) Orator (46 BC) On the Sublime (c. 50) Institutio Oratoria (95) Panegyrici Latini (100–400) Dialogus de oratoribus (102) De doctrina Christiana (426) De vulgari ...

  3. Persuasive writing - Wikipedia

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    Persuasive writing is a set of written arguments to convince, motivate, or move readers into a particular point of view or opinion on your topic. This argument is typically presented with reasoned opinions backed and explained by evidence that supports the thesis.

  4. Essay - Wikipedia

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    An argumentative essay is a critical piece of writing, aimed at presenting objective analysis of the subject matter, narrowed down to a single topic. The main idea of all the criticism is to provide an opinion either of positive or negative implication.

  5. Rhetorical device - Wikipedia

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    In rhetoric, a rhetorical device, persuasive device, or stylistic device is a technique that an author or speaker uses to convey to the listener or reader a meaning with the goal of persuading them towards considering a topic from a perspective, using language designed to encourage or provoke an emotional display of a given perspective or action.

  6. Argumentation theory - Wikipedia

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    This, he believed, will ensure it stands up to criticism and earns a favourable verdict. In The Uses of Argument (1958), Toulmin proposed a layout containing six interrelated components for analyzing arguments: Claim (Conclusion) A conclusion whose merit must be established. In argumentative essays, it may be called the thesis. [23]

  7. Rhetorical modes - Wikipedia

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    The purpose of argumentation (also called persuasive writing) is to prove the validity of an idea, or point of view, by presenting sound reasoning, discussion, and argument to thoroughly convince the reader. Persuasive writing/persuasion is a type of argumentation with the additional aim to urge the reader to take some form of action.

  8. Argument - Wikipedia

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    The goal of argument mining is the automatic extraction and identification of argumentative structures from natural language text with the aid of computer programs. [22] Such argumentative structures include the premise, conclusions, the argument scheme and the relationship between the main and subsidiary argument, or the main and counter ...

  9. Wikipedia:Silly Things - Wikipedia

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    m:Category:Humor, a far-out selection of, like, meta-topics that totally transcend the English Wikipedia, man. The Unofficial WikiZoo Provides a permanent home for the strange fauna of WikiLand. Wikipedia:April Fools – Once a year, some Wikipedians seem to lose their minds; Wikipedia:Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Helpdesk Emails – Mailing ...