define the four elements of an academic argument
Every argument has four essential elements: 1. A thesis statement, a claim, a proposition to be supported, which deals with. a matter of probability, not a fact or a matter of opinion. 2. An audience to be convinced of the thesis statement. 3. Exigence: the need to make an argument at a certain time, in a. circumstance, or for a purpose. 4. Grounds, reasons, or, as they are sometimes formally called, premises that. support the thesis.