The phrase "argues to make" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to express a point of view or reasoning, but it lacks clarity and proper structure.
Example: "The author argues to make a compelling case for environmental conservation."
Alternatives: "argues in favor of" or "makes a case for".
An editorial in the independent Lebanese daily Al Akhbar argues:To make the conference a success...objective factors are important: the European Community should lift economic sanctions, and the regime must allow for the delivery of food for all as well as the release of all [political] detainees.
Yes, but if art exists, as the writer Annie Dillard argues, "to make the stone stony", what could be stonier?
It's a challenge for any product maker, he argues, to make sure that consumers "feel" the right way about its brand.
"I don't have to talk and argue to make my point," he said.
"I would argue to make the case that somehow we are in the dark is mystifying to me," Rogers says.
You've got to develop and maintain people, just like planes, he argued, to make sure you get a good long-term return on your investment.
Equally striking is that the court reached far beyond what the parties had argued, to make a sweeping change in constitutional law.
The purpose of trigger warnings is not, as some have argued, to make participants in a class discussion feel that they're in a "safe space".
But what better way, we can imagine those directors arguing, to make their messages (such as they are) searingly personal to the viewer than to evoke such recognizable forms of mayhem and flick their emotional triggers?
So his reaction to young men arguing to make $5 million, $6 million, $7 million, and getting into all kinds of scrapes with the law, leaves a bad taste in the mouth.
In this way leaving change to the workings of iterability has been argued to make possibilities for reflective agency problematic (McNay 2000).
