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Chapter
II. Recording Evidence.
1. Use small cards or sheets of paper of uniform size...
2. Place only one fact or point on each card........
3. Write only on one side of the card......
4. Express the idea to be put on the card in the simplest
and most direct terms...
5. Make each card complete in itself.
6. In recording material for refutation put an exact
statement of the argument to be refuted at the
top of the card. ... ... .... ....
7. State the main issue or subject to which the evidence
relates at the top of the card............
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8. State the source from which the evidence is taken at
the bottom of the card...
III. Selecting Evidence....
1. The evidence must come from the most reliable
source to which it can be traced....
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2. A person quoted as authority must be unprejudiced,
in full possession of the facts, and capable of giv-
ing expert testimony on the point at issue....
3. Evidence should be examined to determine whether
there are attendant circumstances which will add
to its weight.....
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4. The selection of evidence must be fair and reasonable
5. The position and arguments of the opposition should
be taken into consideration. . . . . .
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6. That evidence which will appeal most strongly to
those to whom the argument is to be addressed
should be selected....
IV. The Amount of Evidence Required...
CHAPTER V
CONSTRUCTING THE BRIEF
I. The Purpose of the Brief.....
II. Method of Constructing the Brief.
III. Rules for Constructing the Brief....
1. A brief should be composed of three parts: Introduc-
tion, Proof, and Conclusion..
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2. Each statement in a brief should be a single com-
plete sentence.
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3. The relation which the different statements in a
brief bear to each other should be indicated by
symbols and indentations......
4. The introduction should contain the main issues to-
gether with a brief statement of the process of
analysis by which they were found......
5. The main statements in the proof should corre-
spond to the main issues set forth in the introduc-
tion, and should read as reasons for the truth of
the proposition....
6. Every statement in the proof must read as a reason
for the statement to which it is subordinate. . . . . .
7. Statements introducing refutation must state clearly
the argument to be refuted...
8. The conclusion should be a summary of the main
arguments just as they stand in the proof of the
brief and should close with an affirmation or
denial of the proposition in the exact words in
which it is phrased..
Specimen student brief....
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CHAPTER VI
CONSTRUCTING THE ARGUMENT
I. Attention—Aroused by the Introduction.
1. Kinds of attention..
A. Natural attention.
B. Assumed attention..
2. Methods of securing proper attention.
A. Immediate statement of purpose.
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B. Illustrative story...
C. Quotations..
II. Interest-Maintained by the Proof....
1. Necessity....
2. Methods of maintaining interest....
A. Appropriate treatment...
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a. Adaptation to speaker or writer...........
b. Adaptation to audience or reader.
c. Adaptation to time or occasion.
B. Logical structure....
C. Style......
a. Elements of style....
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B. Arranging books, papers, and documents.... 142
A. The number of specific instances supporting
the conclusion must be sufficiently large to
offset the probability of coincidence...... 183
B. The class of persons, events, or things about
which the induction is made must be
reasonably homogeneous..
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C. The specific instances cited in support of the
conclusion must be fair examples....
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