'I think it's stupid' is no argument: investigating how students argue in writing

Alexandra Budke, Ulrich Schiefele and Anke Uhlenwinkel


Students' argumentation skills are analysed through their responses to a suggested way of lowering global temperature. Their arguments are categorized and diagrammed to provide some useful insights into the range of students' abilities to argue effect.

Published: 23 May 2010

Volume: 35

Issue number: 2, pp. 66-69