Scholarly Strategies In The Tempest

Scholarly Strategies: Building an Argument Within the first few pages of an article, professional writers can portray an effective means of building an argument. Among these writers and articles are Arthur Kirsch’s “Virtue, Vice, and Compassion in Montaigne and The Tempest,” Jürgen Pieters’ “The Wonders of Imagination: The Tempest and Its Spectators,” Melissa E. Sanchez’s “Seduction and Service in The Tempest,” and Evelyn B. Tribble’s “The Dark Backward and Abysm of Time: The Tempest and Memory.” These writers’ articles and the strategies each used in creating them are the focus of this report. The strategies discussed are the title, opening statement, emphasis, thesis, and secondary sources. Each of the articles contains a mixture of the aforementioned strategies in various ways.
The first part of every writer’s strategy that the reader encounters is the title. The title of any article should not only suggest the subject of the article, but also attempt to entice the reader. In Arthur Kirsch’s “Virtue, Vice, and Compassion in Montaigne and The Tempest,” not only does he employ a small amount of alliteration, he also implies that he will be discussing aspects of The Tempest in respect of works done by Montaigne and the connections that occur (Kirsch 337). “Seduction and Service in The Tempest,” an
Tribble and Sanchez both demonstrate the usage of secondary sources that discuss the subject of The Tempest. In each of the articles, the secondary source pertaining to The Tempest is used in different places. Tribble puts the information from the secondary source after the thesis statement, therefore using the information to further support the statements made. For Sanchez, the source is placed prior to the thesis and used as a starter for the