Today, in our everyday communication, there are many ways to express
ideas, viewpoints or feeling about people, things or issues that we conce rn and
writing is one of them. However, giving opinion by writing is different from
speaking because the writer must write the paper that a variety of people can
understand. Besides, writing also has many types in which each of them is used
for different purpose and in different situations. Academic writing is the one that
are required to do at college or university. In this study, the writer only focus on
argumentative writing essay, one kind of an academic writing to help people,
especially students, to understand the way how to give opinion by
argumentation.
Moreover, we all know that essay writing has many kinds and they do not
have the same audience, tone or purpose. This study concentrates on
distinguishing one from another and indicates the difficulties the students may
encounter while writing argumentative essay.