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Writing the Article Middle Section

The middle section is where you make good the promises of your introduction. No matter how virtousic, well-written, and internally logical your opening paragraph is, in the middle section you have to deliver. As wit all areas of essay composition, there are things to do and things to don't, and once you know what these are you'll feel a lot happier. So read on...

I have divided 'The middle section' into two chapters. The first looks at structure, and shows you how to organize your thoughts into an intellectually mobile and energetic argument. I'm also going to talk in this chapter about how and when to use critics (even, or rather especially, when their views contradict your own). The second, on linkage, is concerned with movement within this larger structure, and explains how to progress smoothly between senences, paragraphs, and sections.

Let me begin by saying that a good essay has to have a good structure. Sorry to be prescriptive all of a sudden, but this rule affords no exceptions. If you dont think about structure, you will almost certainly end up with a sprawling, lurching, sporadic argument, that will neither convince nor persuade, and will almost likely exasperate your tutor to the point of distraction. Although most people donot realize it, but structural problems in the middle section start not with the article or the essay but with the question. People dive in without making absolutely sure they know precisely what it is they have been asked to do. They seize a few key terms and head off into what they think is the sunlight, but which frequently turns out to be the headlamps of an oncoming juggernaught.

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