implicit vs. explicit arguments

“Argument requires justification of its claims, it is both a product and a process, and it combines elements of truth seeking and persuasion” (Writing Arguments, 3). However, there are two types of arguments, explicit and implicit. An explicit argument is directly for a debatable claim, which has its reasons and evidence to support it. Examples of explicit arguments are having a debate in class, or what you would find within a debate club. Explicit arguments have the ordered structure of a thesis, reasons, and evidence. While describing an implicit argument, the text says that in contrast they don’t actually look like arguments. Implicit arguments could be poems, such as the poem on pages 5-6 titled Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen, which the poem is arguing against the belief that giving up your life for your country is heroic. It is stating that war is so horrifying that there is no good reason for war without getting high noble rankings and heroism. Short stories, photographs, cartoons, personal essays, and autobiographical narratives are also different types of implicit arguments. Implicit arguments portray images that the reader is able to picture in their head to understand what the writer is arguing. Both of the arguments, implicit and explicit, persuade the audience toward a certain point.