Books, reports, news and blogs
Analyse written arguments without flattening them into summaries.
Written sources use different structures, but each can be mapped through claims, evidence, examples, framing, counterarguments and conclusions.
Books and reports
Book Argument Analysis System™
Map the thesis, chapter roles, definitions, arguments, examples, analogies, persuasive techniques, assumptions, omissions and effective or ineffective passages.
Study It asks what the book says. Analyse It asks how the book makes its case.
- Thesis and argument tree
- Chapter-purpose map
- Evidence-versus-illustration register
- Technique and counterargument register
- Effective and ineffective passage analysis
- Argument Analysis Report
Public-facing articles
Newspaper and Blog Article Argument Analysis System™
Examine how headlines, opening hooks, source selection, quotations, statistics, images and framing guide a reader towards an interpretation or call to action.
- Article type and purpose registration
- Headline-versus-body comparison
- Fact, source claim, interpretation and opinion separation
- Source and evidence mapping
- Framing and argument-integrity screen
- Claims requiring external verification
Core boundary: a quotation or allegation does not become an established fact merely because it appears in print.
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