Name: __________________________ Grade & Section: _11/12____________________ Score: __________

School: ______________ Teacher: ____________ Subject: English for Academic and Professional Purposes
LAS Writer: BERLYN MAE V. SAGRADO______________________________________________________
Content Editors: ZYNAFE V. CAIJO ROMEL V. MAT-AN RAFFY G. HERRERA
Lesson Topic: Determining Good Argument and Supporting Evidence Quarter 4 Week 1 LAS 2
Learning Target/s: Determine a good argument and supporting evidence (CS_EN11/12-EAPP-IIa-d-3)_______
Reference(s): Saqueton, Grace M., Uychoco, Marikit Tara A., 2016. English for Academic and Professional
Purposes. 1977 C.M. Recto Ave. Manila, Philippines: Rex Bookstore, pp. 49-51.
Maloney, Jonathan, 2019, What is a Good Argument? [online] intelligentspeculation.com
Available at <https://www.intelligentspeculation.com/blog/what-is-a-good-argument> [Accessed
15 April 2021].

Determining a Good Argument and Supporting Evidence

Argument is also called a claim or thesis statement supported with evidence or reasons. To convince
your reader to believe in your claim, you must have a good argument and a reliable evidence.

According to Maloney (2019), a good argument must possess the following criteria:

1. The premises are plausible; it must have good reason to believe that the premises are true.
This implies that if we argue with one or more false premises, then it is not a good argument. The
explanation for this requirement is that we want a good argument that can convince the reader to
accept the conclusion. We have no reason to accept its conclusion unless the thesis of an argument
are all true.

2. The argument must be valid or strong.

To decide if an argument is valid or strong, the writer must maintain that IF the premises are true,
the inference must be true (in valid arguments) or is likely true (in strong arguments).
Example:
All whales are mammals. All mammals are warm-blooded. So all whales are warm-blooded.

To further convince your reader, you must support your claims with adequate evidence. To do this, you
may support your claim by using information from the work of known authors or researchers using the following:

1. Quotations are when you copy the author's exact words, put them in double quotation marks, and add
a citation at the end.
Example:
“Role-play can help children learn techniques for coping with bullying.” (Kraiser, 2011).

2. Examples are sample words or terms that would help explain the argument. It will also help the reader
in understanding difficult or unfamiliar word used by the author.
Example:
Transitional terms and phrases indicate the connections between sections of a sentence,
sentences in a paragraph, or paragraphs in a longer piece of writing such as an essay, short story, book,
magazine article, and so on.

3. Statistics are data that contains numbers sometimes percentages that will make your argument credible.
Example:
In the Philippines, approximately 1.05 million people had been reported as COVID-19 virus
infected as of May 2, 2021. As of this year, nearly 966 thousand had recovered and 17,000 and a half
had died.

Activity. Directions: Put a check ( ∕ ) if the statement is a good argument and (X) if it is not.
____ 1. Sanitation engineers may not have a college degree or formal training in engineering. These people
were once (or still are) referred to as “custodial workers” or “janitors” or even “street cleaners.”
____ 2. Governess is a dignified term for a nanny.
____ 3. Senior citizens, the elderly, are indeed advanced in age.
____ 4. People who are too short or too tall face a challenge in height.
____ 5. “Informal settlers” squat on land that they do not own.