The usual sense of argument differs from argument concepts in formal circumstance such as when we engage in writing an essay. The context of weakness and strengths in the thesis of an essay brings about a literally argument on the part of the writer. This means, the writer argues with himself in a personal debate, strongly arguing in favor of his own subject and at the same time, disagreeing with the same. For instance, the writer may be discussing a serious and complex political issue wherein, he explains in detail his views and suggestions in favor of the political issue, however, he has to explain and discuss the other side of this political issue comprehensively (Kay, 14-16 ). Thoroughly he must discuss the negative aspect of this political debate from his own perspective similarly as how he argued about his positive perceptions on the debate.
The everyday sense of an argument dissents in perspective to proper arguments. In an essay, the debate about the strengths and weaknesses of a context are generative. An essay argument structure is different from the everyday sense of an argument; indeed, the latter is not a typical difference in opinion and disagreement involving emotions. It is a well-researched and structured guide and conclusions supported by facts. The essay writer should be critical about his opinion and equally critical in thinking about the essays paradigm.
An essay’s argument should be cosmological. The writer should only discuss the strengths and weaknesses from his cosmological knowledge or borrow from existing literature. Normally, this segment of an essay is referred to as a literature review. It is a comprehensive analysis of arguments and relevant debates about the concepts of the particular essay. The perspective of the essay should follow an inductive trajectory. The term cosmological connotes universal concepts hence an inductive argument. The essay writer argues throughout the essay from experience, from particular subjects to a relevant conclusion (Kay, 445-6).
An essay has to follow the cosmological trajectory. This means that, the argument about strengths and weaknesses should be based on observation. Objectively, the observation about the specific matter should be recent and may well show previous observations (Pritchard, 46-56). This helps identify if we have been led to wrong assumptions. Living in a particular environment reflects the various social-economic capabilities of an individual. Living in up market residences depicts that individual as rich and vice versa. However, living in a particular environment does not explain the individual’s feelings about the place. These feelings and perceptions about the place are his own hence cannot be debated unless the individual argues in a debate that aims at establishing the negative and positive of living in that particular environment; For example, living in Cape Breton. This paper explores the strengths and weaknesses of living in Cape Breton without comparing the protagonist with somewhere else.
A Review of the basic procedures of a comparison vs. an evaluation argument
Essays, which feature both the inductive and deductive, should follow a basic procedure. The procedure is a trajectory of the argument of the essay. The first element of an argumentative essay is an overview or an answer to a question or task that has been recommended as the subject of the essay. The essay writer should focus on answering the question or rather debating and drawing out a clear picture of what the subject intends to give credence.
Secondly, the essay should have an argument. The argument is the review of literature related and arguing, both, in favor and in negative perspective of the subject of the essay. Normally, a literature review is a profound debate about the strengths and weaknesses of the subject and the facts that support it. In this case, the subject of the essay is subject to a debate that aims to verify the credibility of the subject. The argument draws facts from past debates and facts and lays bares the strengths and weakness of the subject of the essay.
An essay should develop a thesis. A thesis gives an essay a meaning and a story line which the reader can follow and understand the objective of the essay. This entails discussing a particular subject or the core element of the subject. As a result, a set of closely related points are debated and developed into facts through reasoning and using past and present literature and enough evidence drawn from various credible sources. The essay should draw its support to its perspective throughout its arguments from credible sources
Writing an essay should involve concentration and focus on the subject. The subject of the essay might vary with sub-subjects. Understanding what the structure of the essay is like is very vital. The subject of the essay might be a question while several questions may follow and at some point dissent with the purpose of the initial question (Hairston, 11-57).
Strengths and weaknesses of living in Cape Breton
Living in Cape Breton provide an insight about life in a farmhouse and a farming culture in modern society. Cape Breton is an Island Northeast of Canada. It is separated from the mainland by the Strait of Canso. The centre of Cape Breton is occupied by a lake known as Lake Bras d’Or salt lakes. The inhabitants of Cape Breton are mainly the Scottish of highland descent. The Island is developed with modern facilities like hospitals, schools, and industrial centers present. Beach resorts and fishing villages are available making the Island an ideal place to live.
The lifestyle here is both cosmopolitan and metropolitan. This provides a unique platform to attain a multi-cultural experience. The Scottish farmlands have inspired insights about agriculture and an understanding of how food is grown and processed. Looking at multiculturalism, Cape Breton is an ideal example. Learning cultures and different religions has provided a gateway to knowledge about other people’s way of life. Tourism in Cape Breton is an activity embraced by the community here. Indulging in exploring and enjoying the vast flora and fauna of Cape Breton has helped create a dynamic reasoning about places and their natural beauty.
Cape Breton is an ideal platform for learning industry practices and related faculties. Why; proximity to industries and factories provides hands on experience on what goes on in these factories. It is easier to identify the core business processes carried out by industries and other institutions due to their proximity. Farming and the geography of the land offers the necessary knowledge about how cultures adopt economic practices based on the environment they live in. Cape Breton inspires a quest for knowledge and understanding of multiculturalism in the modern society.
The panorama of Cape Breton expanse is breath taking. It distracts ones imagination of tourism. Valleys and canyons where farming activities go on show a unique landscape, which is well supplied with agricultural produce. Cape Breton has rich farmlands, which enjoy short growing seasons. However, the harsh weather inspires desire to travel away to sunshine.
Conclusively, the insight about living in Cape Breton provides a clear picture of an island that evokes a desire to experience the fullness of life. The Island is complete and suffices to provide the experience of life a soul desires; However, this only the positive side of perception about Cape Breton. On the contrary, other elements of life in this island do evoke negative attributes defined as weaknesses.
The weaknesses of living in Cape Breton
These are understood as the negative factors and environmental effects on individual’s feelings. What could these be? Based on a truism approach, there are quite a number of weaknesses evoked by Cape Breton. One is the weather. The harsh weather conditions, which are backed up by brutal snow and cold spell, inspire a desire to have a change of climate in the island. One is tempted to think what life is beyond Cape Breton. The weather, especially the short summer or rather fewer days of sunshine are indicative of a long-suffering, which many wish to get over. Living in Cape Breton was once described as chaotic. Waves of crime were reported but they later subsided as opportunities kept on increasing.
This evokes desire to evaluate the rapid industrialization. Life is fast here; today you might see this and tomorrow something else. Industries have popped up like proverbial mushrooms on dung heaps. Economic activities are many in numbers and opportunities are on the rise. Settling here is ideal for the dynamic human. However do such business opportunities provide the right climate for social health; no. Such rapid economic developments only create a deep hole for moral and social imbalance. Many black hat business processes might come up as a result.
Other negative aspects of Cape Breton include the following
The place offers too much experience to an individual such that, one has nothing to learn from outside Cape Breton. This is attributed to the multicultural nature of the island.
The diverse culture and religion provides one with hands on experience about living with other people rather than allowing a gradual process of growth and development in such environments.
One is forced to believe that this is the only place where life is fast and provides opportunity. There are emerging markets and a hungry market from services and products here making everyone to be comfortable.
A draft of this essay
This essay has focused on outlining the basics of formulating an essay. It is a clear guideline on how an essay should be structured, especially when arguing about strengths and weaknesses of a subject or an opinion. Literally, the essay lays bare the various paradigms of structure and trajectory of an essay (Hacker, 20). This is observed in the introduction where the essay debates inductively the process of generative arguments.
The aspect of structure is discussed throughout the Cape Breton review. In this part, the essay uses both the inductive and deductive principles of writing an essay about strengths and weaknesses. We observe how putting aside each aspect of the essay is important. The essay weighs both sides and proffers each a thorough analysis. The strengths are discussed in a positive manner and various projections outlining the context of strengths is equally inductive. On the other hand, the essay considers the weaknesses as fewer and overshadowed by the strengths. As such, the essay proffers the weaknesses a comprehensive analysis of their effects on an individual as well as the environment and the society.
The essay has a literature review, which features scholarly debates about the context of strengths and weaknesses when structuring arguments. Each element of proper essay writing is discussed in the literature review making the facts argued in the essay to hold. The scholarly works connotes comprehensive approaches and insights about how the process of arguing should be, especially, from a scholarly perspective.
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