The twelfth chapter of The Bedford Researcher, which is titled Developing Your Argument, is split into two sections. The first section has you looking at how to support your thesis statement. they do this by splitting up this section into three steps. The first step is choosing which reasons will be supporting your thesis statement, and making sure that those reasons are supported by evidence from the your sources. The second step is to choose which evidence you will use to support each of your reasons. Finally, they give the reader a list of different appeals (appeals to authority, appeals to emotion, etc.) and the third step is having the reader decide what appeals to use based on what kind of document you are writing.
The second section of the chapter talks about assessing the integrity of your argument. This section begins by splitting up the different fallacies that can be used up into a number of different categories, and having the reader look through each of the categories to make sure that none of the fallacies are being used in their own work.
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