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argumentative essay

argumentative essay noun: a type of essay, common in educational contexts, that presents a stance or position on a specific issue and provides evidence and reasoning to support that stance.

Noun

argumentative essay (plural argumentative essays)

  1. A type of essay, common in educational contexts, that presents a stance or position on a specific issue and provides evidence and reasoning to support that stance.
    • [W]e conduct the first independent, systematic study of AI-generated language content that is typically dealt with in high-school education: argumentative essays, i.e. essays in which students discuss a position on a controversial topic by collecting and reflecting on evidence (e.g. ‘Should...2023 October 30, Herbold et al., “A large-scale comparison of human-written versus ChatGPT-generated essays”, in Scientific Reports, volume 13, page 1

Forms of argumentative essay

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Questions about argumentative essay

What does argumentative essay mean?
Argumentative essay means a type of essay, common in educational contexts, that presents a stance or position on a specific issue and provides evidence and reasoning to support that stance.
What part of speech is argumentative essay?
Argumentative essay is a noun.
What is the plural of argumentative essay?
The plural of argumentative essay is argumentative essays.

Words near argumentative essay in the dictionary

  1. argumentary
  2. argumentation
  3. argumentations
  4. argumentatious
  5. argumentative
  6. argumentative essay
  7. argumentative essays
  8. argumentatively
  9. argumentativeness
  10. argumentativity
  11. argumentator

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