The phrase "analyze an argument" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the process of examining the reasoning and evidence presented in a particular argument or claim.
Example: "In this essay, I will analyze an argument presented in the article to evaluate its validity and strength."
Alternatives: "examine a claim" or "evaluate a reasoning".
The analyze argument is a function of two arguments, the generator and the input function.
An R&C course can teach many more sophisticated techniques for working with readings: scanning for structure and relevance, analyzing parts of an argument, close reading, attending to voicing and rhetorical situation, and generally putting to use the intellectual resources necessary to actively engage with a variety of texts and genres.
Your writing should be analyzing or making an argument about the text; not providing a summary of the passage.
In this Essay — prepared for a symposium on the Future of Fannie and Freddie — we analyze that argument.
Acceptance is most likely to emerge through understanding, so the first step they recommend is to analyze the anatomy of an argument by developing a story about an important relationship problem that incorporates the perspectives of both partners, identifies incompatibilities and vulnerabilities and describes how each person copes and how the problem escalates into conflict.
Like Hewlett, I'm a fan of the College and Work Readiness Assessment, an online task that requires students to analyze data and construct an argument.
In order to analyze mood and argument strength effects, we develop a theoretical model and conduct an empirical study based on a 2×2 experimental design.
Informal logic is an attempt to develop a logic that can assess and analyze the arguments that occur in natural language ("everyday," "ordinary language") discourse.
We wanted to assess how often randomized clinical drug trials use active placebo control groups; to provide a catalog, and a characterization, of such trials; and to analyze methodological arguments for and against the use of active placebo.
