Unit 9: Developing a Complex, Sustained Argument

Your main claim, a debatable, defensible position that sets the stage for everything that follows, including your line of _.

Information, such as facts, statistics, or examples, used to _ a claim, needing to be both relevant and sufficient.

Your analysis or interpretation that _ how your evidence proves your claim, connecting the dots for the reader (the 'so what?').

An _ viewpoint that you acknowledge and address to strengthen your own argument.

The quality of an essay that ensures it flows like a smooth river, where every paragraph and sentence logically _ to the next, creating a unified argument.