What is a Research Argument
Channel: Martin T. Olliff
Date: 2020-10-02

Lecture by Dr. Marty Olliff for Troy University courses HIS 3375 and HIS 4490.  It defines a research argument as a contribution to an "academic conversation."  It maintains that the point of the argument is to understand, not defeat an opponent, and is built on claim-assertions-evidence.  The argument is the skeletal structure of a research paper.  No part of this work is a "work for hire" under US copyright law.