Use Of Debates To Develop Argumentative Paragraph Writing Skills Of Engineering Students
Abstract
This study probes into the connection between debate and its effect on developing argumentative paragraph writing skills. Paragraph writing is a basic form of writing that every student should master to communicate well both in academic and professional settings. This paper expounds how debates can help students enrich their argumentative paragraph writing skills. After a thirty-period intervention program using debates to trigger their ideas for better argumentative paragraph writing skills through process approach, it has been understood that students have demonstrated a marked improvement in their argumentative paragraph writing skills.
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