THE 5 MOST COMMON ARGUMENTATIVE RESOURCES (WITH EXAMPLES) - LITERATURE - 2025

The Argumentative resources are linguistic strategies that help the issuer to strengthen its position on a given topic. They are resources used within the argumentation.

In general, controversial topics are discussed where an opinion or hypothesis is presented in this regard, to validate said hypothesis and persuade the recipient.

The argumentative resources are numerous and are usually used during the development of a debate, text, speech or any situation where an attempt is made to present a topic.

They are in charge of sustaining the hypothesis after having been introduced in a certain topic and reaffirm it based on facts or evidence.

Argument is used daily in conversations, articles, research and more, and uses argumentative resources to provide added value and weight on the issue being defended.

Resources commonly used in argumentation and their examples

The argumentative resources are many and its main function is to reaffirm the issuer's position when taking part or presenting a thesis.

But there are some argumentative resources that are used more frequently than others, some of them with their examples are:

Exemplification

Exemplification consists of presenting, demonstrating, or testing a hypothesis through examples. It is one of the most used argumentative resources.

The exemplification illustrates the receiver through a series of premises in which he uses phrases such as "for example", "such as", "as a sample", "I put by case" and more, thus supporting an affirmation or negation.

Example: “ The temperature is decreasing every day. For example, yesterday it dropped 2 degrees, while today it has dropped twice. "

Authority quote

It is a resource that is used within a text, speech or in any linguistic situation, where the appointment of an authority or specialist in said subject is used, to support the position or theory of the issuer with greater force and give it value.

Example: "The World Health Organization stated that cervical cancer is one of the leading causes of death in women."

Analogy

This resource establishes the parallelism or the similarity between two elements that seek to be related.

In general, he tries to explain through the relationship between a situation as or more complex and abstract than the one being defended, to give validity to what is said. The idea is to relate an unknown knowledge with something that is already known and is known.

Example: "The judge sentences to prison during the trial, just as if it were God."

Statistical data

This resource is responsible for offering reliable numerical and statistical information, which illustrates in a simpler way what is being affirmed or denied in order to prove the veracity of said hypothesis.

Example: "Annually more than 1 million people lose their lives at the hands of crime."

Generalization

This resource uses inductive reasoning. Consider a large number of particular facts to make a comparison or establish a relationship between them. It presents as a main idea that everything works the same way.

Example: “No criminal is capable of changing his way of being. The evil is inside, they are all the same. "

Other argumentative resources are appeal to fame, cause and consequence, concession, reformulation, rhetorical question, enumeration and refutation.

References

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