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(Why tabulate a nest of key points and supporting points ?) |
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# Logically connected peers are visually driven further and further apart as subordinate elaboration expands, and cognitive work is required to reconnect the 'sentences' which they form when read together. |
# Logically connected peers are visually driven further and further apart as subordinate elaboration expands, and cognitive work is required to reconnect the 'sentences' which they form when read together. |
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# The 'vertical' metaphor of *support* (evidence supporting claim, clarification supporting reference etc) is replaced by a visually less direct horizontal convention, and, again, takes some cognitive work to reconstruct. |
# The 'vertical' metaphor of *support* (evidence supporting claim, clarification supporting reference etc) is replaced by a visually less direct horizontal convention, and, again, takes some cognitive work to reconstruct. |
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A potential *weakness* of tabular representations of argument/exposition structures is, of course, that some horizontal contiguities are more meaningful than others. One solution is to add more space at the margins where the edges of sub-trees meet, and another is to distinguish adjacent subtrees by color – hence the '''extra credit''' task. |
A potential *weakness* of tabular representations of argument/exposition structures is, of course, that some horizontal contiguities are more meaningful than others. One solution is to add more space at the margins where the edges of sub-trees meet, and another is to distinguish adjacent subtrees by color – hence the '''extra credit''' task. |
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# the visual presentation of nested key points and supporting points (rather than sub-divided topics) |
# the visual presentation of nested key points and supporting points (rather than sub-divided topics) |
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# and the teaching of argument structure. |
# and the teaching of argument structure. |
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(The current Perl6 color scheme rather helpfully shows that I failed to make this at all obvious or clear :-) Thank you ! [[User:Hout|Hout]] ([[User talk:Hout|talk]]) 04:36, 24 October 2019 (UTC) |
(The current Perl6 color scheme rather helpfully shows that I failed to make this at all obvious or clear :-) Thank you ! [[User:Hout|Hout]] ([[User talk:Hout|talk]]) 04:36, 24 October 2019 (UTC) |