Gaining Knowledge on Argument Essays

The current summary analysis project is revealing a lot of things about how I used to write and argument essay. While working on the summary analysis, we have been taught to use the idea of quote sandwiches. I never realized how helpful of a concept that is. In past argument essays I did not use quote sandwiches. Looking back I can see that I did a lot of unnecessary explaining. In past arguments I used to provide a quote from the source I used and just explain the heck out of it! It was unnecessary because the quotes were pretty self explanatory themselves. I also noticed that I never included what the author was appealing to. The way this summary analysis project has been broken down has really helped me to better understand how to effectively write an argumentative essay.