Writing Center tutorials focus on writing issues like structure, clarity, argument, and citations.
Somehow, out of anecdotes about Andy Warhol, Friedrich von Hayek, Jascha Heifetz and Linus Pauling, out of free-floating riffs, vaudevillian jokes, recollections, citations, arguments and patient explanations, out of the excited explosions of example and counterexample, associations develop, mental terrain is reordered, and ever grander patterns emerge.
It thus takes little more than a quick Google search these days to locate an academic paper published in a prestigious-sounding journal that makes any argument you want and claims to have the data, statistics and citations to support that argument rigorously and without question.
Such treatises generally relied on some combination of argument (usually drawn from ancient sources), examples, and citations from scripture and from literary or philosophical authorities.
Be sure to double-check all of your major claims and citations to ensure that your arguments have the firmest factual foundation possible.
Then, write another essay defending the other side, again with evidence and citations, considering that side's arguments seriously and being scrupulously honest and putting in as much effort as you did for the first essay.
Then, write another essay defending the other side, again with evidence and citations, considering that side's arguments seriously and being scrupulously honest and putting in as much effort as you did the first essay.
The argument of a positive correlation between patent stock and citations is analogous to that of GDP's correlation with citations; more patent activity leads to more patent citations in general, including citations of US patents.
His great insight was to think about websites like academic papers, which build arguments through citations of previous papers (and list them in the footnotes).
Before entering an argument, make sure you've done your research and have a ready arsenal of facts and citations to fall back upon.
