Beginning

What to do

Events
creating
the
problem
or issue
Contentio
n
Proposal
Middle

Body
Reasons
for your
viewpoint
Evidence
supportin
g each
reason

Ending

What you are going to say

Do this after you

have assembled
your reasons and
evidence
Consider using a
challenging
question here
What to do

Select two or three

good reasons from
your material.
Express each
reason as a clear
statement.
Use a separate
paragraph for each
reason
Try out different
ways of
sequencing your
set of reasons
Use different kinds
of evidence
Use one or two key
questions to
challenge your
readers or to make
them think
Try out challenging
the order:
evidence first,
then the reason
What to do

Why you are saying this

Reason
Evidence:

Reason
Evidence:

Reason

Evidence:

What you have said

Conclusion:
Repeating your
contention in a
different way
eg. As the result
of what you
have argued.
Predicting
problems
arising from the
news policy.

Use introductory words

or phrases that provide
a logical connection with
what you have said eg;
For these reasons, on
these grounds,
therefore, it is clear from
this that