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• One of our key premises is that these basic moves are so common that they can be represented in templates that you can use right away to structure and even generate your own writing.
• designed to help you successfully enter not only the world of academic thinking and writing, but also the wider worlds of civic discourse and work.
• The easiest and most common way writers do this is by summarizing what others say and then using it to set up what they want to say.
• which it won’t make sense. It may be helpful to think of this crucial element as an “as-opposed-to-what factor” and, as you write, to continually ask yourself, “Who says otherwise?” and “Does anyone dispute it?”
• perspective, . On the other hand, however, others argue that . In the words of , one of this view’s main proponents, “ .” According to this view, whether or My own view is that . In sum, then, the issue is . . Though I concede that , I still maintain that . For example, . Although some might object that , I would reply that . The issue is important...