1.  An argumentative text poses a thesis that provides ideas, perspectives, discussions of a problem or a phenomena.
The objective of an argumentative text is to convince or persuade the reader of the thesis proposed.
An argumentative text should develop a logical argumentation organized into paragraphs, each paragraph having a function and they have to be connected to both to the previous and the coming paragraph.
To support the thesis it's useful to provide QUALITY and QUANTITATIVE DATA.
Quality data are developments of thoughts, concepts and information. Quantitative data are figures, tables, percentages and any other material that reinforces what has been said previously.

 

2.  Three text studied are:
• A. Toynbee, The Chief Features of the Industrial Revolution, 1884 (extract)
• T.S. Eliot, Developing an argumentation, talk broadcast to Germany audience after World War II
• Letter from " Corriere della Sera", 29th September 2011 pag. 3

 

 3.  From the argumentative text studied, we have learnt to define the conventions of an argumentative text and to find out the thesis proposed by the essayist. In addition to these, we have analyzed the use of language which is reinforced by connectors and a particular use of vocabulary. The purpose is to have an appropriate vocabulary every time we have to write an argumentative text. Through texts we have read, we have learnt a socio-economic vocabulary that helps us to write ,for example, an essay about the Industrial Revolution. To write an argumentative text is useful to organized what we have to write into paragraphs, in order to have a text in which the reader understands what is our thesis, what are our argumentations and also to express clearly what the text is dealing with.