The first element: argument and dialogue

Students put forward an idea in their graduation thesis, which needs to be supported by reasons, and this reason is based on evidence, recognition and response to other ideas. Sometimes you have to explain the principle of your reasoning. This is not mysterious, because you will apply these elements whenever you want to explore the unsolved problems carefully.

The second element: based on reason.

Your point of view is the core of graduation thesis and the answer to the research question. There are two kinds of support opinions. The first is that there is at least one reason to support it. Explain in one or two sentences why your tutor should accept your point of view. We usually use "because" to connect opinions and reasons. For example, the liberation of Russian farmers is a blank check (opinion) because it has not improved their daily material life (reason).

The third element: build the reason on the evidence.

Students often use reasons to support their views in daily conversations. We should go, because it looks like rain. We won't ask what the evidence of rain is, unless it is a meteorologist. But when you ask serious questions in words, you can't expect your tutor to accept all your reasons easily. A careful teacher, like the meteorologist, will ask students to provide evidence, references or facts to support your reasons.

The fourth element: acknowledge and respond to other opinions.

A responsible student will support his point of view with evidence-based reasons. But those careful tutors will not accept your point of view just based on your reasons and evidence, unless they think exactly the same as you (but this is impossible, because you are putting forward your own argument! They will think of some evidence you don't have, make different interpretations of your evidence, or draw different conclusions from the same evidence. So you must anticipate the questions raised by your tutor as much as possible, and then admit and respond to the most important questions.

The fifth element: give an argument for the connection of reasons.

Even if the tutor agrees that there is enough evidence to support your reasons, they don't necessarily think you should accept your point of view. They will ask: although your reason is true, why is it related to your point of view? In order to answer this question, you must put forward general principles to show why you believe this particular reason is related to this particular point of view.

The above five elements constitute a "basic" argument.