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English Composition · Chapter 6

The Analysis Slot

Evidence dropped into a paragraph sits there like furniture in a hallway until someone says what it shows. Build the paragraph one move at a time — claim, evidence, analysis, significance — choosing among sentences that a real draft might actually contain. Two of every three are traps, and the commonest trap is restatement wearing analysis’s clothes.
Subject

The paragraph so far

Now find the warrant

Which assumption holds that joint together?
Reader Would they grant it for free?