Academic skills workshop: Constructing arguments in your essays
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Venue:
Online
This workshop is for Birkbeck students. Book your place in My Birkbeck / Events and Workshops (not sure how to do that? Watch this short video guide!). If you use the link above to book, please use your Birkbeck student email address to sign up - thanks!
- Do you get feedback on your assignments asking you what your point/argument is?
- Do you get feedback asking where your evidence is for a claim
- Do you feel that you don’t really know what an academic argument is?
If your answer to any of these questions is yes, then this workshop may be useful for you.
In this session, we’ll look at the key features of an argument, including the evidence or support for an argument, and the thesis statement. Finally, we’ll consider how effective paragraphing can help us to develop effective arguments, particularly how the common ‘PEEL' approach to paragraphing reflects effective argumentation.
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This online workshop is delivered via Microsoft Teams. You will receive a confirmation in your email inbox after you register for the workshop, and the Teams link will be available about an hour before the start of the workshop. It's intended for enrolled Birkbeck students only.
Many of our workshops are repeated numerous times throughout the academic year. Recordings and resources from workshops are also available via this link to the Birkbeck Study Skills Moodle module (student login required).
The full listing of Study Skills workshops for this term can be viewed here. For 1-to-1 study support, find out more about the helpdesk via this link, or about school-specific tutors and resources via this link.
Contact name: Joy Igiebor
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