Pleasing the Audience

     I am very fortunate to have had some debate experience through my highschool years in the sense that I can clearly see two sides to a situation. Having this little experience has also shown me that the crowd is half of the work. Like take the presidential debates as an example. They don't go up there talking about how dependant we are on everyone else, no. They talk about utilizing our own resources and blah blah blah stuff like that.
     Anyway in a purely academic paper it is always important to keep in mine that:
1. you are writing to state or prove a fact through facts. You're not persuading and you're not debating so there needs to be a solid support to your thesis.
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2. the P.E.E. of righting an academic paper is almost no fail as long as you are accurately proving and supporting your point.
     Which brings me to the topic of your thesis. It never fails that all of us have had a class where we have been assigned such a broad subject that we try to address it all. When in reality we need to fine a less broad fact from the original subject to be supported by other findings. For example say you have been assigned to write a paper on something pertaining to global affairs. Well you could go and define the statement and then drone on for 12 pages and lose any many to your paper because of an overload of information covering such a broad spectrum. But just by defining something more clearly, like saying "The UN is an overpowering governmental control that does not define strict limits." (just an example) and then suddenly you have a structure for a much more defined paper.
     Now following up on that the paragraph structure. I personally think that a P.E.E. paper is a very effective tool when used properly. Personally I like to add some extra evidence just to have more of a foundation to my claims. It really is simple: point, evidence, evaluate. It almost never fails as long as you're supporting with valid information.
     I hope you all have an easy time writing your academic papers...and may the odds be ever in your favor.