• Are you able to identify the strengths and weaknesses of an argument?
• Can you determine what additional information might make an argument easier to evaluate?
• Can you create alternative, plausible explanations for the claims in an argument?
Because analytical skills are important for a successful career in management, the GMAT requires each test taker to complete the Analytical Writing Assessment, a timed task that reveals the writer’s analytical abilities and his or her ability in crafting a coherent evaluation of an argument.
The essays and prewriting activities in this book are intended to serve as models for the test taker to use when responding to practice arguments. Use them as it is or to inspire yourself to create your own essays. Either way, practicing for the AWA will ensure the best score possible on the test.
GMAT Analytical Writing: Solutions To The Real Argument Topics contains sixty sample Analyze an Argument essays along with the rubrics, prompts and tips to use when writing your own essays. The prewriting activities demonstrate how the writer selected a point of view and created evidence to use in developing the responses.
• 60 solved Argument topics with strategies to be used as a benchmark
• Expert Strategies and simplified methods to produce focused responses
• Scoring Guides for Argument tasks as per the GMAT Guidelines
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1. Analytical Writing Assessment
Strategies
Scoring Guide
Conclusion
2. Solved Argument Tasks with Strategies
Argument Task 1 – The Mercury
Argument Task 2 – Apogee company
Argument Task 3 – Financial magazine
Argument Task 4 – Health club managers
Argument Task 5 – Cerberus dog food
Argument Task 6 – Environmental protection
Argument Task 7 – Big Boards Inc.
Argument Task 8 – Speedee Airlines
Argument Task 9 – Corporate newsletter
Argument Task 10 – Company that makes shampoo
Argument Task 11 – Olympic Foods
Argument Task 12 – Large city’s council on the arts
Argument Task 13 – Company manufacturing parts for heavy machinery
Argument Task 14 – Magazine on trends and lifestyles
Argument Task 15 – Waymarsh students
Argument Task 16 – Daily Gazette
Argument Task 17 – Advertisement for Adams
Argument Task 18 – Acid-Ease and Pepticaid
Argument Task 19 – Restaurant industry in Spiessa
Argument Task 20 – Automobile manufacturing company
Argument Task 21 – Drug absue
Argument Task 22 – City L
Argument Task 23 – Board to censor movies
Argument Task 24 – Synthetic Farm Products
Argument Task 25 – Coffee and cola
Argument Task 26 – Perks Company
Argument Task 27 – Fern Valley University
Argument Task 28 – Professor Taylor
Argument Task 29 – Avia Airlines
Argument Task 30 – University hospitals vs community hospitals
Argument Task 31 – Robin Good
Argument Task 32 – Recycling of newspaper
Argument Task 33 – Information technology department of advertising firm
Argument Task 34 – Excelsior Company
Argument Task 35 – Government funding of environmental regulatory agencies
Argument Task 36 – Safer workplace
Argument Task 37 – West Cambria
Argument Task 38 – Prime-time television programs
Argument Task 39 – How to Write a Screenplay for a Movie
Argument Task 40 – Electro Wares Company
Argument Task 41 – Tartfish industry