Nutshell Your Argument
"The six exercises in this figure cause you to look at your argument from different perspectives, helping you clarify the question you are addressing, articulate the kind of change you want to make in your audience's view of your topic, and directly state your purpose, thesis, and tentative title" (Ramage et all 507)
Exercise 1
What puzzle or problem initiated yoru thinking about X?
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Exercise 2 (Paradigm: Many people think X, but I am going to argue Y)
Before reading my paper, my readers will think this about my topic:
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But after reading my paper, my readers will think this new way about my topic:
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Exercise 3
The purpose of my paper is:
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Exercise 4
My paper asks the following question:
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Exercise 5
My one-sentence summary answer to the above question is this:
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Exercise 6
A descriptive title for my paper is this:
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