“…26 (76%) of the 34 articles examined in the study are examples of rhetorical argumentation (Berland & Mc Neill, 2010;Berland & Reiser, 2009;Chang & Chui, 2008;Clark & Sampson, 2007;Dawson & Venville, 2009;Foong & Daniel, 2013;Jimenez Aleixandre et al, 2000 ;Grimes, McDonald & van Kampen, 2019;Kelly, Druker & Chen, 1998;Kolstø, 2007;Kutluca & Aydın, 2017;Liu, Liu & Lin, 2019;Mc Neill, 2011;Moon, Stanford, Cole & Towns, 2017 ;Osborne et al, 2016;Pabuçcu & Erduran, 2017;Ryu & Sandoval, 2012;Sadler & Donnely, 2006;Sadler & Fowler, 2006;Venville & Dawson, 2010;Yang & Lin, 2015;Yerrick, 2000;Weng, Lin & She, 2017;Zhu, Lee, Wang, Liu, Belur & Pallant, 2017),and 8 (24%) are examples of dialectical argumentation (Albe, 2008;Chin & Teou, 2009;Gonzalaes-Howard & McNeill, 2017;Kim & Song, 2005;Naylor, Keogh & Downing, 2007;Nielsen, 2012;Nussbaum, Sinatra & Poliquin, 2008;Yun and Kim, 2015 ).…”