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5.7: Editing Your Final Essay

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    You’ve made it to the end of this course on learning how to read and write critically! Now you have to implement and combine everything you’ve learned. In short, you need to:

    1) Be sure each and every sentence and word are properly chosen to accurately represent what you want to say 2) Clearly state your conclusion and your premises and
    1. Ensure your argument is valid
    2. All of your premises are supported by cogent inductive arguments
    3) Avoid all fallacies 4) Be aware of counterarguments that people might make and account for them in your essay 5) Make sure that each sentence connects to the next and each paragraph connects to the next 6) You don’t say anything that isn’t helping to directly support your conclusion 7) Liven up your essay by using fun examples

    Spell-check and grammar-check in a word processor are not enough. Read and re-read and edit and re-edit and ask anyone else to proofread your paper for you. Good luck.


    This page titled 5.7: Editing Your Final Essay is shared under a CC BY-NC-SA license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by Noah Levin (NGE Far Press) .

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