Name: How to use concession in your argument essay
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We're going to look at concession, basically what it is and how it can contribute to the health of your child's writing.

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Concession is a tool you can use to strengthen your position in a task to argument essay.

It is, however, something that needs to be exercised with caution because they've executed improperly.

It's can cause your argument essay to argue against itself, which, of course, weakens your overall position and confuses the reader before we get rolling.

Concession is when you admit some merit to a point of view that opposes your room.

If I were trying to convince you that Coca Cola is better than Pepsi, I me rights.

Coca Cola is better tasting and comes in more varieties, and although it is not as cheapest Pepsi, it is more widely available in this statement.

I say it is less expensive than Coke, but I don't let this fact, derail my attempts at convincing you that Coca Cola is overall better than Pepsi.

And thus I use language that reveals the conceding nature of my point about Pepsi.

The word although Frames three idea as a momentary detour from my central argument through declaring the temporary nature of this point about Pepsi, I am diminishing any chance of this counter evidence swaying or confusing you as my reader.

Further in this specific instance, I also reinforced my central arguments with another point in support of Coca Cola that Coca Cola is more widely available than Pepsi.

Thus, my central argument is preserved throughout the sentence, so this sentence acts as an example of a simple yet healthy use of concession.

It's okay to provide some supports for the opposing point of view in an argument essay, so long as you maintain the central arguments and finished the entire thought on track with your central position.

The mistake many candidates make when attempting concession is that they too forcefully argue in support of the opposing side and do not frame the conceding nature of their point of the point.

So for another simplified example of this mistake, um, such a candidate.

Uh, Coca Cola is better tasting and comes in more varieties than Pepsi.

The problem with this is that the sentences read is a list of facts and not a structured support for any central argument.

In other words, the writers central position in support of Coca Cola isn't as apparent to the reader.

Concession can be used in either arguments or discussion.

But remember that your discussion essay should be presenting an objective analysis of two or more positions, thus, in the use of concession, would need to be framed in a way that preserves theater active nature of your supporting paragraphs.

So, in other words, try not to confuse concession, which is the willful granting of merit to a point of view that opposes your own with the discussion essays, unbiased analysis of two sides of an issue.

Okay, so let's look at a more complex use of concession and one that is in a Niles context.

Task to question Personal finance is a topic that should be taught to students in elementary school.

We see a brainstorming session that a candidate may carry out in the first few minutes of their test to attempt, and this brainstorming session produces one agree point and to disagree points, Um, so we'll read through the points quickly in agreement is schools are convenient places to dispel information to large numbers of young people.

Okay, so that could be arguing in support of the idea that personal finances a topic that should be taught to scoop to students in elementary school.

The elementary school facilitates thehe bility to dispel this information.

Two young people, large numbers of young people in disagreement.

We have two points teaching personal finance before students fully understand the basics of maths may be confusing a second point.

There are other, more important subjects.

Young people should spend their time studying.

So because this spring storing session produces two points that support the disagreement side, the student would be best writing.

An essay on argument say that disagrees with the statement in the question because we have more evidence Now, a question candidates often have is regarding what's role, if any, the agree point that was produced in the brainstorming session holds.

Candidates also want to know if looking at this opposing point provides a more well rounded answer in in an argument essence.

The thing to remember is that the fundamental purpose of your argument essay is to prove your position.

And, as you will remember, this physician, he has declared in your thesis at the beginning of the essay, thus looking at an opposing point of view.

Such a CZ, this one on the agree side of the table and not framing this look as a conceding point causes youto argue against yourself, and doing so confuses the reader and weakens the overall strength with which you declare your position.

Sometimes students will go a SW far as to commit to the entire paragraph.

In there, I'll assess a to looking at the merits of a position that opposes the position they took in their thesis.

And in an argument, as they have only 250 to 300 words, you really have to be careful as doing this will run the risk of harming your essays ability to prove, um, it's thesis.

Please remember that once you have declared your thesis at the beginning of the essay, you are locked into an argument that you are expected to support throughout the remainder of the of the essay.

If you're going to start flipping between the merits of both sides of an argument, you might as well write the essay as a discussion.

I say That's a It's a completely different style of essay.

So when students asked whether they should have lot an entire paragraph to upholding the merits of an opposing point of view and announce Argument essay, my advice is to avoid doing this.

If you frame the paragraph with conceding language but a nonsense, he is simply too short for you to commit an entire Paragraph two arguing against your thesis.

A better strategy is to tie your conceding points or to tie your opposing points like this one on the agrees side into paragraphs that operate in support of your thesis.

This way you do look at the opposing point of view, but you neutralize it by combining it with stronger evidence that supports your thesis.

So to demonstrate this in action, we will need to frame this point schools or convenient places to dispel large numbers of information in a way where it poses little threat to the central disagree position that we're taking in the essay.

Uh, this a pretty picture of particular would likely be made thesent supporting paragraph of arrest.

See, because this would allow us to be entirely in support of our thesis in the first supporting paragraph, and thus we created a stronger foundation for our our central argument.

Notice how the agree point is given concession and encountered in the opening sentence.

Although elementary schools would be convenient places to offer financial education to the young, sacrificing the time student spent studying core subjects could disrupt the base upon which their future studies were built.

For example, a typical day at an elementary school in Canada is eight hours long and includes lessons on key components that make up a solid academic foundation.

Were Children pushed to devote an hour of this time to studying personal personal finance, their understanding of other core areas such as maths, um, and language may be jeopardized.

Thus, it is clear that making personal finance a mandatory curriculum components at the elementary school level is an idea that should not be supported.

As you can see, concession is given to the convenience with which elementary schools could broadcast information to young people.

But we don't let this point detract the central purpose of the paragraph, which is to support our disagree position.

We encapsulate the conceding nature of this point through our use of although, and Thekla this common.

So I'd like to now demonstrate some actionable language you can use to deliver concession in your writing.

In these examples, I've outlined the wording patterns by designating X to the area being offered concession and why to the area essentially supported by the writer.

I've also included, in addition to two examples that are in denial, it's context.

I've included simple examples using the Coca Cola Pepsi pattern we were using before just to help demonstrate a more simplistic version of these patterns.

So the first pattern is although X comma y full stop.

For example, Although Pepsi is cheaper than Coca Cola, it does not taste as good.

Nor is it is widely available, okay, offering concession to Pepsi without allowing Pepsi to overrun our are based argument, which is that Coca Cola is better than Pepsi and, um, an example that's more unannounced context.

Although elementary schools would be convenient places to offer financial education to the young, sacrificing the time students spend studying core subjects could disrupt the base upon which their future studies are built.

The next structure, in spite of despite, notwithstanding, X, so these three could be used interchangeably.

Despite its more favorable price, Pepsi does not taste as good as Coca Cola.

Nor is it is widely available, we might say, in spite of its more favorable price or notwithstanding, it's more favorable price.

The example in announce context in spite of the convenience with which elementary schools could offer financial education to the young, sacrificing the time students spend studying core subjects would disrupt the base upon which their future studies are built.

Another structure, even though x comma y full stop, even though it has a more favorable price.

Comma Pepsi does not taste as good as coca cool north as widely available, even though elementary schools are more capable.

Excuse me, even the elementary schools are capable of conveniently offering financial education to the young, sacrificing the time students spend studying core subjects would disrupt the base upon which their future studies are built.

Ex Full stop Nevertheless, comma Why Pepsi is Cheaper Than Cool Cola.

Nevertheless, comma Coca Cola tastes better and is were widely available traits that enhance its attractiveness to the average consumer.

Elementary schools could conveniently dispel financial education to the young.

Nevertheless, sacrificing the time students spend studying core subjects would disrupt the base upon which their future studies are built.

So I hope that video helps explain a few ways that you can look at these alternative points of view and an argument as say, without allowing them thio.

Confuse your reader or hinder your ability to convince your reader to agree with your opinion on the subject.

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