Organization

In Chapter six of Envision: Writing and Researching Arguments, the chapter talks about organizing and writing research arguments. The books compares writing a research paper to film production. Writing a research paper and producing a film have many small steps that support a grounding vision or main idea. Both have a carefully planned structure. Both also involve rigorous editing. The chapter discuss on how you can organize your research. You can make visual map like a bubble web to arrange your ideas in categories using shapes and colors. You could also make a graphic flowchart. In a graphic flowchart you list an idea and draw an arrow to the cause and effect to show the relationship.

The visual maps help you prepare to continue on with the next step of creating your paper, the outline. Outlines help you organize ideas when you start your first draft. To construct an outline that will actually help with your paper, you can not have only topics in the outline, your outline must consist of detailed information which is going to be shown in your paper.

Chapter six also discuss integrating research sources. Integrating sources is including your sources strategically and not just appropriately and rhetorically. By including your sources appropriately you are avoiding plagiarism. By including your sources rhetorically you are deciding on how much of a presence you will have in the paper. By including your sources strategically you are providing a range of quotations and evidence in the paper.