I think a book should be a single story with some kind of structure: a beginning-middle-and-end, a tension-and-resolution, an argument-and-conclusion, a search-and-discovery, a loss-and-recovery.
In the drafts of dissertation chapters I gave him, my methods of argument and conclusions were often radically wrong-headed from his perspective, as I well knew.
Marissa Isaak Eugene, Ore., March 16, 2008 To the Editor: While I disagree with Harlan Coben's arguments and conclusion, I think his Op-Ed article raises a bigger question than whether it's O.K. to spy on our kids.
31 Similar work has coded policy position, argument, topic and conclusion.
A sociology essay that is well structured is pleasing to read and shows the reader that you have the ability to present the problem, argument, solution and conclusion in a disciplined way.
You can scour it all you like for insights, arguments and conclusions.
And in all these cases it is appropriate to ask whether the theses, arguments and conclusions are in fact acceptable.
But that is part of the reason why there is a superficial feeling about his arguments and conclusions.
The word count was growing every day, but my arguments and conclusions weren't necessarily getting any clearer.
Describing the arguments and conclusions of Timothy Noah's "Great Divergence" (May 27), an excellent summary of the research on America's growing income inequality, Benjamin M. Friedman makes almost no mention of the relationship of income inequality to economic growth.
