As we work on drafting essays, we’re also developing our basic writing skills, so here are some paragraphing tips to make this more explicit. Dunleavy’s Medium article explains aspects of organizing paragraphs as well. The…
The Most Common Logical Fallacies infographic posted to Canvas has more information, but one fallacy, the generalization, is when a writer applies a statement or interpretation very broadly, without examining the nuances of the new…
An excellent Twitter thread about a short sentence authored by Hemingway, and what we’re prone to assume, and why (click the date for the thread): “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” Hemingway’s infamous six-word is…
A precis (pronounced pray-see) is a concise summary of the important points of an article. It’s the next stage of what we did previously, which was simply identify the author’s primary claim. The paragraph(s) you…