The phrase "offer an argument" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it whenever you are trying to present evidence or opinion in support of a particular idea. For example, "This essay will offer an argument for the benefits of a four-day work week."
Your paper must offer an argument.
Complicating matters, Mr. Obama inherited two wars in Muslim lands, which would seem to offer an argument for not getting entangled in a third.
The proposal should identify a research puzzle, situate that puzzle in the relevant literature, and offer an argument with testable hypotheses to explain the puzzle.
Yet his late-night dash up the M4 did not seem to disturb his equilibrium and his performance that might offer an argument against curfews.
Given ample chance during a 13-day trial to offer an argument apart from prejudice, proponents of Proposition 8, the prohibition against same-sex marriage in California, found no evidence.
Voters wishing to register a "protest vote" might normally opt for the opposition, but with the Liberal Democrats in government, they faced a choice between Ukip and Labour – and Ed Miliband had failed to offer an argument sufficiently tempting.
Fast Forward offers an argument that "sings in two octaves," as Azzarelli puts it.
This study offers an argument on the use of ordinal values in Likert scale that represents the linguistic terms of the level of satisfaction perceived by employers on the graduates' performance.
Donald Davidson has offered an argument against animal rationality based on an association between concepts, beliefs, and language.
Indeed, Aristotle offers an argument (2a35 2b7) to establish the primary substances as the fundamental entities in this ontology.
To refute the primacy of essence over existence, Khayyam offers an argument based on the relationship between subject and predicate.
