Unit 4 – Argument and Evidence: What is the argument and what evidence supports it?

According to the topic of this unit, what I had been explained by Encik Humamuddin is; Argument is the opinion or statement that support our main idea and evidence is information that gives a reason for believing or proving something. Basically, not every text includes argument and evidence as they are mostly found to present a case, typically for or against a proposition. Furthermore, they are usually found throughout academic journals of all disciplines, policy documentation and legal literature, as well as reports of many varieties. The key questions for this unit are what is the argument or case being stated, what evidence is provided to support the argument and does the evidence support the argument.

On the whole, there are four articles that I need to read so that I can identify and evaluate the elements of argument and evidence. There are ‘Body language that speaks to muggers’, ‘Burning out at nine’, ‘What is the evidence?’ and ‘Statistic’. For this unit, Izwani, Azila and Farah Diana had presented it and they came up with a simple explanation regarding arguments and evidence. They brought up the concepts in each reading of the unit starting from reading 4.1 until reading 4.5 and I think the presentation was interesting because they had give attractive information where they talk about the article and also told the class opinion. Besides, they use simple and easy approach in making the students understand fully their presentation.