Analysis Of Inventing Your Argument's Content By Charles Paine

In “Inventing Your Argument’s Content,” Richard Johnson-Sheehan and Charles Paine propose the reader an organized method to invent the content of an argument, showing the major sides fairly. The authors divide this material into smaller and sequential topics: “identifying your topic, identifying point of contention, and finding out what others believe and why.” Johnson-Sheehan and Paine guide the readers step by step through the content without leaving any chances to get lost throughout the reading. While explaining how to identify the topic, the authors show the reader some examples to demonstrate how to narrow the topic from a broad one to a more specific and manageable one. When describing this technique, the authors state the following: