Capitolo Sedici (Ch. 16)

What counts as evidence? Lunsford et al. 2007’s chapter sixteen provides the sources to confirm the qualifications of evidence. Evidence can be used to prove an oral statement or physical performance. We are to compel the match between evidence and type of argument to increase its effectiveness of writing. We also should deploy the tactics of using evidences at right time to make an essay relevant. Each criterion in chapter sixteen suggests the adversity of confirmation of its evidence. Lunsford et al. 2007 writers supported the idea that finding evidences would be difficult and there are numerous options that could characterize evidence.

In R.G. Collingwood’s philosophy book, The Ideas of History, he wrote, “And when we try to define ‘evidence’ … we find it very difficult.” It aimed to Lunsford’s writings which added that evidences could be persuasive in one time and place, but not in another; it could convince in a kind of audience, but not in another; it could work with an argument specifically, but not for other arguments (Lunsford et al. 2007 page 470). That citation I found is the most important part of chapter sixteen for me because the majority of the web sources were mistakenly recorded which could lead into wrong information that could impact your argument. Every web source, to me, is a piece of domino waiting to be toppled on. Let’s talk about interview which is one of subtitles in chapter sixteen. It suggests that direct interviews could obtain the best evidences, only from the consultants of experts. To approve of its expertise, you have to ask for the background information and personal accounts. It proves the genius and inventiveness of Lunsford et al. 2007 that every thing, every evidence must be backed up with the formal check-up before pointing out in an argument. An attempt to find strong evidence is no picnic for all of us, freshman undergraduates, and the uphill struggle to find the one is idealness for academic writing.

To all of us, the newbie to academic writing, the advanced scholars will praise us for our excellence of finding the evidences because of its paradoxical combination matching with type of argument and the timing. Taking our time off on finding the better evidences could take us a mile further. Google provides the advanced search to specify my needs of finding a reliable source (Lunsford et al. 2007 page 485). Patience is what all scholars need to advance their academic writing and there are multiple sources including Google that will expand our search. I acknowledge the quote by A.J. Ayer in his Philosophy in the Twentieth Century “… ‘the study of evidence’ would be a better choice than ‘the study of language’”. According to his words, mastering the placement and findings of evidence, in my opinion, is the most important feature for academic writing.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/evidence/

Lunsford et al. 2007