Setting out Argument in MasterFile
Strategies and Techniques
Strategies and Techniques
One of MasterFile’s unique features is the ability to let you set out and substantiate your argument or thesis, point by point. Why? Because setting out and proving the facts related to the issues with concrete argument, substantiated by key extracts from evidence is what it’s all about.
In this post we cover how based on what we’ve learned and refined from actual cases argued with MasterFile.
If you’re not familiar with MasterFile’s concepts and MasterFile’s doc-link technology, first reading our post on our doc-link technology will let you more fully benefit from the discussion here.
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Developing and setting out argument is an “intellectual exercise” and really there are no hard and fast rules. Nevertheless, in general, setting out an argument requires methods to:
What’s needed are “power tools” — but without imposing a rigid “technology based solution” that would shackle creativity and our thought processes.
In MasterFile:
We call these collective capabilities the ‘Argument Toolkit’.
Doc-links and facts work hand-in-hand to form the core of MasterFile’s argument “power tools”.
However, there are no hard and fast rules! So here are some of the ways we’ve found to be best that should help you get started:
Alternatively, you can take a different tack …
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