General info: In the simplest sense, an argument paper is a paper that stakes out a position that opposes a position staked out in some other piece of writing. It coheres around a basic structure, in which the paper first summarizes some particular position attributed to others and then delineates its own position as a
departure from that other position. This approach to writing argument papers according to the “they say / I say template” (as Gerald Graff and Kathy Birkenstein have dubbed it) can be found in any number of books on the craft of argument.
Prompt: Pick a Boyette Award essay
(https://liberalarts.tulane.edu/departments/english/news-events/student-awards#:~:text=Boyette%20Memorial%20Award%20Fund%20was,a%20 freshman%20English%20essay%20contest) Citing and using the elements of the Toulmin Method (claim, grounds, qualification, warrant, rebuttal, and backing) as well as specific text passages, make an argument against the thesis of that essay.
