By: Steve Patterson
Submitted: 2010-04-29 16:09:54 | Word Count: 448
Topic Passage
The sermons of puritans contained an approximate rigid 3 part outline :content , decipherment and relevance which could be treated as a very good model to adapt."content"can refer to almost anything right from a quote to a natural event like tsunami.Presentation of the text requires some detail."decipherment"is the full elucidation of the content,its origin,its interpretations, points of view etc. But its in the "relevance" (sometimes called the ) where the content is challenged to its meaning, which is manifested from the pre-paragraphs is to be discovered.It is here where the question "So what?" is quenched This is where it is explained by the preacher why he cares to elucidate the the content and what correspondence does it bear with with respect to our existence. The poems of Robert Frost follows a similar pattern too.In his works foremost a content is described, the garden of flowers or the degenerating woodpile ,then to which he offers an explanation in next stanzas.It ends with a moral . The moral has a message for each of its reader who has to to interpret it in his own way.No matter how the papers are organized by you, just do make sure that content,decipherment and relevance are included in them.
As I have a graphical imagination, I prefer to have a picture of my argument's representation.If two points of view,texts or two personalities are being compared by me I imagine them being connected in a zig-zag way passing to-fro them."This point will have this response by Marx , but Adam Smith is going to repudiate by saying this.....But on other hand there is Karl again...but Adam does have a support too." and so on.This mentioned tactic makes it a basic and easily understood to the brain due to its point-counterpoint approach.
Another imagery of the argument could be two lawyers in a court with ample evidence and arguments to back them up. After the elucidating introduction, we get more than two pages of Catherine MacKinnon's praiseworthy austere magniloquence on date-rape issue ,then again we have the three to four pages of colorful prose by Camille Paglia.After the two blocks ,each side have the rightful moment to refute with each other.Then comes another block where we have analysed both of them individually or together with necessary quotations.In last, all the jurors are summarized respectfully keeping in mind that the the points have been well understood by them.
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