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An Example Third Storey<\/strong><\/h1>\r\nLet\u2019s revisit \u201cThe Ultimate Communications App<\/a>\u201d from Chapter 1. After careful reading of the text, and based on the evidence we gathered, we might identify the last two paragraphs as the central paragraphs to the author\u2019s complex argument:\r\n
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Example<\/h3>\r\nThis is probably the basis for the evolution of different languages (see \u201cTower of Babel\u201d). If we go back far enough in time, all of us living today have a common history, but over thousands of years different peoples occupying different places have come to conflict and cooperation with each other.\r\n\r\nEach of us has our humanity and human origins in common with everyone else alive today. \u00a0Since then, we may have got here in different ways, but we all share the present time in common. \u00a0We, in fact, share this age in common with the Earth\u2019s biosphere and all its manifest diversity.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\nFirst, let\u2019s choose an audience that the author is addressing. Again, there can be more than one potential audience for a text. To make things simple here, we will look at this essay as if it were written for first-year university students based on the language used, its genre (essay on a blog) and the particular argument it is making. However, be careful: you, as a reader are not always the intended audience and when identifying an intended audience you should reflect on the tone, language and argument in the author\u2019s essay.\r\n\r\nThen we can focus in on the contrasts of \u201ccooperation\u201d and \u201cconflict\u201d and the repetition of the word \u201ccommon\u201d as the two best pieces of evidence. When pointing to the words in the text, we remember they are not our words, so we must cite them correctly as the author\u2019s. If you need a refresher on in-text citation,\u00a0you can read more in Chapter 13<\/a>. We then follow with the controversial claim of our two-storey thesis statement:\r\n
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Example<\/h3>\r\nFIRST STOREY:<\/strong> In his essay \u201cThe Ultimate Communications App,\u201d Charles Justice writes for an audience of first-year university students in Canada. He uses the contrast of \u201ccooperation\u201d and \u201cconflict\u201d (para. 11) in combination with the repetition of the word \u201ccommon\u201d (para. 12) in closing his argument.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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Example<\/h3>\r\nSECOND STOREY:<\/strong> Justice is arguing that while humans have become distanced into \u201coccupying different places\u201d (para. 11) by technological, agricultural and domestication evolution, it is the shared history of humanity growing from the same original roots of collective language construction that unites every modern person to their human counterparts around the globe.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\nWhen adding a third storey to this two-storey thesis, you must consider the logical extensions of this argument as they relate to the original text as a whole. In general, when developing your third storey, you might ask:\r\n