Word: argumentation
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Complexity aside, there is a strong argument that using the tax code is an inefficient and expensive way to accomplish economic or social goals. Most economists will tell you that multiplying IRAs is unlikely to prompt the additional savings the U.S. economy needs; investors may only shift money out of less favored forms of savings. As for college-tuition tax breaks, Richard Murnane, an education professor at Harvard, fears they will turn into "subsidies for middle-class parents sending kids to college. Most middle-class parents do that already, so there's not much gain." Then there...
...Each case will be considered the normal way," he said. "The decision is made based on the quality of the argument and the actual need...
Inasmuch as that is noted, the objective for the writer of the perfect essay is the exact argument. The exact argument proceeds from a previously elaborated thesis. It is ordinarily divided into two, three or four points. All complex arguments are also required to be reduced to two, three or four points so that the reader can comprehend the nature of the argument. Within each point, the author is required to marshal evidence to convince the reader that the thesis of the essay is perfect. In the case of the weary workers, for example, the author might cite personal discussions...
...essay arrives, of course, only after the author has proved the thesis. The purpose of the end in a perfect essay is not to continue the argument of the essay--in that case, the essay would not have ended. Nor is the purpose of the end to simply stop--a red light is not the equivalent of an ending. Rather, a conclusion is a sort of contented wrapping of the package, a happy ending, a period. A conclusion works backward, restating the points of the argument in reverse. Then the conclusion, not smugly but always with confidence, states--not suggests...
African Americans have been debating the merits of separatism vs. integration for a hundred years, since W.E.B. Du Bois took Booker T. Washington to task for saying that the races could best work together apart, like the fingers on a hand. The argument flares and dampens but never dies. So what's surprising is not that it's flaring up again but that it's flaring up in the N.A.A.C.P., where integration has been the defining principle since the organization was founded by blacks and whites...