argumentative essay

English

Noun

argumentative essay (plural argumentative essays)

1. A type of essay, common in educational contexts, that presents a stance or position on a specific issue and provides evidence and reasoning to support that stance.
   • 2023 October 30, Herbold et al., “A large-scale comparison of human-written versus ChatGPT-generated essays”, in Scientific Reports, volume 13, page 1:

     [W]e conduct the first independent, systematic study of AI-generated language content that is typically dealt with in high-school education: argumentative essays, i.e. essays in which students discuss a position on a controversial topic by collecting and reflecting on evidence (e.g. ‘Should students be taught to cooperate or compete?’).