In this lesson.

We're going to go over the outline of what's involved in writing a discussion essay.

Now, before we begin that, I just thought we take a second to show what the difference is between an argument essay and a discussion essay.

And if you watch the video before this one, you know that an argument essay states the writers opinion at the beginning, and you probably recall this is cold a thesis, uh, and supports, uh, it It's being the writer's opinion with evidence.

Now a discussion S e is a little bit different.

A discussion essay analyzes the opinions of others and gives the writers at the end.

Okay, so in a way, an argument essay and a discussion essay or kind of inverted versions of each other in the argument essay.

You're giving your opinion right at the beginning.

You're saying this is what I believe, and then the whole estate you're saying why you believe this?

In a discussion essay?

You're looking at the opinions of other people.

So basically, you're saying I'm looking at this person's opinion.

I'm looking at this person's opinion.

And at the end, you say which one you feel is stronger and which one you would agree with.

So in a way, you're not giving your opinion at all until the end of the essay.

Okay, so now if we focus just on discussion, essays, discussion, I see no discussion is he has four paragraphs first being an introduction paragraph second being a supporting paragraph, third being a second supporting paragraph and the last being a concluding paragraph.

And I'm just gonna mark these as number one and number two so we can keep track them easier.

So now the discussion essay full is the exact same paragraph format.

As the Argument s say, you're starting with an introduction paragraph.

You're following this with a supporting paragraph and then following that with another supporting paragraph and then finishing with a concluding paragraph.

Okay, Now, inside of each of these paragraphs are a number of sentences, and each sentence has its own job to do so.

If we take the introduction paragraph, the first sentence is a background statement on the topic that we're writing a boat.

The second is a detailed background statement.

So is basically a little bit more information on the topic that we introduced in the first sentence.

The third sentence is the points of view on the topic that will be analyzed.

So we're looking at that.

Maybe it's if you're writing this foreign Isles exam, it's gonna be probably two points of view on the topic that you're going to look at.

Okay.

And then, obviously the 1st 1 is going to appear in supporting paragraph one, and the 2nd 1 is going to appear in supporting paragraph two.

Now, the last sentence is simply an outline sentence, which is basically telling us the order.

We will discuss thes points of view.

And so it's just saying that you could even just say these points of view will be discussed in this order, which means that whatever order you said them in the point in the third sentence, the sentence here, that will be the order that they will appear in the supporting paragraphs.

Okay, so, uh, if we take a make belief, statements such as McDonald's is a great restaurant.

Now the question is discussed.

The statement.

Well, we're gonna come up with two points of view on this topic.

So the first, perhaps being that McDonald's is a great restaurant, the 2nd 1 being that McDonald's is not a great restaurant.

And we're going to say those two points of view in the third in the third sentence of the introduction paragraph.

Okay, now.

So if we come down to supporting paragraph one, so supporting paragraph one is basically talking about point of view number one.

So the first sentence, um, it just gives a statement of point of view one.

And if we just, uh, remember our little talk about McDonald's?

Well, here we would say it is believed by some that McDonald's is a great restaurant.

Okay, that's just stating the first point of view that were analyzing.

Now, if you listen to the way that I said that, I did not say any in any way that that's my opinion, I said, That's the opinion of others.

It is believed by some that McDonald's is a great restaurant.

The second sentence is an example that supports point of view one.

Now perhaps we don't think that McDonald's is a great restaurant, and it's kind of funny, but that doesn't matter.

In this paragraph, we because we're reading a discussion s A We have to show some evidence that supports point of view number one.

Okay, just to kind of show that we're discussing it.

We're looking at the pros and the cons.

The good things, the bad things about each each point of view.

Now, following this example, we give a discussion statement.

Okay?

The discussion statement blinks the example.

Two the point of view.

So, for example, we might say something along the lines off.

As this example shows.

McDonald's is a very impressive restaurant, depending on what our example is.

Maybe we're talking about how good the food is or how clean the restaurant is.

Okay, Now, the last sentence is our conclusion sentence.

And this conclusion sentence just gives us a supportive statements to those that it would agree with.

Point of view number one.

So it's That's a supporting statement.

Two.

Those who agree with point of view one.

So, for example, we might say something like, uh thus, it is understandable why many people feel that McDonald's is a great restaurant.

Now, once again, I'm using language that somewhat distances myself.

In my opinion, from this point of view, I'm saying This is the opinion of other people, and I understand why they would think it's a great restaurant.

I'm not saying that.

I think it's that.

But I understand why they think it's that Okay, now supporting Paragraph two is going to talk about point of view number two, which in this case would be that McDonald's is not a great restaurant.

So oh, I think it's will be difficult to see.

Okay, so the first sentence is a statement of point of view, too, the second being an example on supporting point of view, too.

Third being once again, any discussion sentence and this discussion sentence links the example of point of view, too, with the statement and finally a conclusion which once again shows that we understand why some people support this point of view, which is that McDonald's is not a great restaurant.

Okay, so this far we have introduced introduced the two points of view, and we've supported both points of view.

Now, in a Niles exam, you're pressured in two ways.

Your pressure for time and you're also pressured for length.

And if we were to actually write a really discussion essay, well, of course, we'd we'd look at the negatives as well of both of these topics, but that's not gonna be possible with the length uh, we're only given 250 to 300 words to write with.

And if we start talking about the negatives and that's going to put us way over.

So now if we come down to a concluding paragraph now, the concluding paragraph is made up of three sentences which, if you recall, is the same as the concluding paragraph for the Argument essay.

The 1st 1 is a summary of points of view analyzed.

So the points of view we looked at points of your number one that support McDonald's points of your number two that don't support McDonald's.

This is a sentence that sort of summarizes those two areas that we looked at.

The second sentence is a statement of our point of view, So we're just saying whether we feel that we more so agree with point of view Number one most so agree with point of view number two.

So we'd structure this as something like after analyzing both points of view, it's obvious that point of view Number two is stronger or it's obvious that McDonald's is not an impressive restaurant or however we want to word it, and then the last sentence is a prediction for a recommendation.