The article presents the solution of the scientific problem of improving the educational and scientific training of graduate students of the Border Guard Service of Ukraine. The problem of formation of research competence of graduate students in the process of teaching the discipline “Theory and methods of scientific argumentation” is analysed. The purpose of the article is to generalize the formation of research competence of associate professors in the teaching of the discipline “Theory and methods of scientific argumentation”. For this purpose, a number of scientific works on the topic of research authored by domestic and foreign scientists are analysed. The specifics of educational and scientific training of these specialists are revealed. The content and features of the discipline “Theory and methods of scientific argumentation” are analysed. A description of the research competence of graduate students is given. The author described the essence and content of competence: the ability to identify and justify current scientific problems, as well as to compile these problems for selected research, to carry out scientific procedures of analysis, synthesis, comparison, abstraction and others, to implement the results and formulate necessary scientific conclusions and recommendations. Difficulties in teaching the discipline “Theory and Methods of Scientific Argumentation” to adjuncts are identified: the first group of problems should include those due to the specifics of the system of higher military education in Ukraine: lack of systematic presentation of logical knowledge at the cadet level; reduction or elimination of classroom hours for teaching logic; humiliation of the status of logic in the system of humanitarian education; the second group of problems is related to the definition of the content of the discipline “Theory and Methods of Scientific Argumentation” for graduate students: lack of cooperation with teachers of the discipline “Theory and Methods of Scientific Argumentation” and special disciplines of graduate students; lack of content of the discipline “Theory and methods of scientific argumentation” for associate professors. The conclusions of the research and prospects for further research are formulated.

Key words: graduate students; research competence; educational and scientific training; theory and methods of scientific argumentation; teaching, formation.

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