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This is a great PDF which distinguishes argument writing from persuasive writing and explains the terms students need to be familiar with. It also discusses ideas on how to teach the elements of argument and explains the importance of clear feedback.

I think some of these teaching ideas would be interesting to get my students involved in thinking about argument. I could model a paper about eating bugs.

We need to think of some new essay topics for 9th grade comp. courses. This lists 200 prompts that are relevant to students today.

"Convince Me" PDF gives excellent introductory lesson ideas for argument aligned to common core standards.

This website describes how one teachers uses a blended learning approach to teach paragraph writing. This could be a useful model for our 9th grade composition course.

This website breaks down refutation writing to four steps (Restate, refute, support, conclude)

This article discusses the differences between reading for information and reading critically. It also breaks down the steps to reading critically and discusses synoptic and post-reading. These various types of reading work to help students better understand information.