Argumentative essays are a great way to express your opinion through writing. If you have never written an argumentative essay, you may be wondering what it is. Well an argumentative essay is exactly what it is called, it is an essay in which the writer argues in favor of a certain point and throughout the essay he uses many elements to convince his audience why he is right. A good argumentative essay is one that contains six elements which are thesis, personal background, historical context, common ground, definition and arguments. The first part of every great argumentative essay is a great thesis. When you write your thesis you need to make sure it is clear and argumentative. The main purpose of this writing is to offer the reader another point of view and not necessarily convince him to change his opinion. For example, if you wanted someone to do something for you, you wouldn't start arguing with them, but you would use a more persuasive approach. Likewise, when writing the thesis, think more about making a clear but argumentative statement rather than a persuasive one because if you want to be persuasive then it becomes a persuasive essay. An example of an unfocused thesis would be: “Oregon should provide funding for businesses to provide paid internships to teach people business skills. Instead, Oregon gives people money to go to college.” As you can see, the introduction is where you state the thesis and also introduce the question and remember that your thesis must be clear. You need a body paragraph and it will contain your reason i.e. topic sentence and your evidence. The evidence should help you create a stronger argument, so be clear and don't over-explain. In your concluding sentence you can provide the reader with a solution to the problem: at this point the reader will have enough information to decide on his choice