Organizing a GRE Issue Essay (Question of the day - December 4, 2018)

Alright, I just got home after a long day at work, this is the

question

of the day for December 4,

2018

, it was actually in response to one of our subscribers who asked me: I understand how to organize an argumentative

essay

, But how is an

essay

organized? Essay, you know what your approach is. Well, first of all, my approach is always to take a middle ground, not necessarily middle is the wrong word. I do not take a position of totally agree or totally disagree. I always take a mostly agree or mostly disagree position. I've always done this. I think it shows better critical thinking.

I think it shows the ability to see both sides of the

issue

, but it's not necessary. I have seen six and five students who got very high scores on GRE essays, so it is not a precondition for You should definitely take a qualified position because either a qualified position or one of these positions mostly agree or mostly disagree , but that's what I like to do, that's how I like to do these things and I'll show you how I would do it. It is for this specific message, so the message says that as we acquire more knowledge, let me put a space here as we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more understandable but more complex and mysterious, what would be your thesis? ?

So, again, my thesis will be there. I mostly agree or I mostly disagree for fun, let's say I mostly agree, so I mostly agree with the statement in the message, and then usually what I do is I have a concession, so before I go in In details, let's talk about how I am. I'm going to organize this. First I'm going to give a concession that is basically an idea that the opposite side supports. Well, more specifically the opposite side is that as we gain more knowledge, things become simpler and easier to understand, not more difficult, so that's the opposite idea here. and I'm going to give a statement that supports that and my accusation that the paragraph will be about supporting that side, I hope it makes sense, but then I'm going to get into the meat of my essay where I say support point one, remember this.

Things become more difficult to understand as we gain more knowledge and support two, which is the same thing, not the same idea, but the same support point. I still support that things become more difficult to understand as we gain more knowledge, so now the

question

. I'm going into detail here, what specifically am I going to do in each paragraph? So in my concession, my topic sentence would probably be something like this in some cases and in some fields, the more knowledge one acquires, the simpler and easier things become. something like that and then my job in this paragraph is to find one or two examples that illustrate this phenomenon, so let's see if I can, let's see if I can think of just one, what is a field or what is an idea, where else the knowledge that you acquire it actually becomes simpler and not more complex.

I think a couple of things illustrate this fact, so I could start with an everyday example, let's say sports that you know, for example, American football, when an outside observer attends a game, the rules and procedures. They appear to be extremely complex and it is not unusual for this observer to have essentially no idea what is happening before his eyes; However, as exposure to the game increases, the rules of the game become less arcane, the players' actions become less mysterious, and the coach's decisions less ambiguous. I don't know anything like that so I'm just playing around with some language here and I need to get rid of this due to the parallel structure, however as exposure to this game increases its rules become less arcane.

The players' actions are less mysterious and the coaches dismiss them as ambiguous and before the woman knows it, she has a firm grasp of the game for the most part and now what I always like to do is a second example, so I would say that something like this phenomenon is not confined to the world of sports, however, it is also present in some academic fields, particularly medicine, just as an example, you know, and I would say that before the discovery of the very small, The world of germs and viruses was a complete mystery even to the little ones in the world.

The illnesses of the smartest women were not caused by relatively simple contagions, but were the will of God or the happening of someone else, so we can use a kind of academic GRE word here, nebulous presence, okay, when people became ill, it was not attributed to a physical process. true, it is not something that they could simply explain, but essentially magic true, essentially something that was inexplicable when people got sick, the blame was not attributed to a physical process but to something that in many cases remained inexplicable and I put it in quotes obviously to Illustrate my point with other words, okay, and then you can even go deeper into this field of medicine and you can say something like now we even have a firm understanding of the human body itself and we are aware of how most of its functions , Let's say. necessary what is vital vital functions proceed before this knowledge however the field of medicine was an area that depended on conjecture speculation witchcraft and religious explanations or something like that it doesn't let us leave it aside witchcraft okay so this one doesn't is my final body paragraph, but that's the angle I would take, so let's go back to the topic sentence, so in some cases and in some fields, here is example number one of the cases, here is example number two of fields and I am going to illustrate that the things become simpler and easier, so here is my example about the American football case and then I stop here and then I go into my academic example right here, this phenomenon is not limited to the sports world and then I go into my medicine examples, blah blah.

Blah, blah, blah, and then with my supporting point one, I say, however, in most cases, knowledge complicates things, it doesn't simplify them, okay, and then I want to get into a more specific reason here. and I would say that something like this is due to or this. This is mainly because as we gain more information or information we become aware of the large number of seemingly relevant or seemingly irrelevant factors and causes in fluid influencers. I will say influences, however, in most cases, knowledge complicates things, not simplifies them. This is mainly because as we acquire more information we realize the large number of seemingly irrelevant factors and influences that each phenomenon has.

Well, then I won't write the whole paragraph, I'll just give you an example of something like the weather. Okay, so take the weather, for example, you know, and I'll just talk about it, so in the past, they explained the weather as when it's cloudy it's going to rain or when it's when the sun sets and it gets colder. . The climate was relatively easy to explain, now they weren't always correct, but the explanations weren't too complex, but I read some articles about trying to model the climate even with the most advanced computers in the world and Let's say the climate is so complex and because to so many factors that it's essentially impossible to have even a somewhat reliable prediction of what's going to happen in the weather a week from now, you know, and now I would give some examples of the factors like, say, barometric pressure or you know there's something to look at. with ocean currents, and I would simply list a couple of these factors to illustrate their complexity and then probably try to think of another example of a process that is affected. by dozens, if not hundreds, of external factors and how impossible it is to determine what happens when we actually learn about all of these external influences that play a role in these phenomena and finally, for this paragraph that I could write a little about I would say I would probably say kind of like besides, since I'm not even overusing that structure, so if I said something like numerous examples illustrate that more knowledge leads to barriers and phenomena that we just can't explain, I mean, and they just become almost strange, so that would be my point in this paragraph and I have many of them, so from the field of astronomy I would probably use dark matter and dark energy and you know, the expansion of the of the universe, so we know that the universe is expanding, we know that It's because we don't know for sure, but we think it's because of something called dark energy, but we don't know what it is, I mean there are theories, but there aren't any. of them are definitive, we also have Dark Matter if we analyze the gravitational attraction on galaxies at the speed at which they rotate, there should be more matter than what is present in the visible matter and again it is a very inexplicable phenomenon and even if we take into account It counts as if you know about the dark planets and all this stuff, it doesn't even come close to explaining what's going on here and this is a hurdle that has really complicated things, not simplified them and was only possible as we gain more knowledge, You know, I just learned that the universe was expanding.

I think through Hubble you know the redshift of galaxies, so it would be a field of astronomy and then I would probably duplicate this with a field with correct physics and essentially quantum theory is so strange. Do you know more? we learn about quantum theory we learn about all these maybe contradictions or you know all these weird things and especially quantum theory just doesn't fit with the Einsteins, you know the theory of relativity, you know Einstein's physics, you know everything we want. making these two worlds work well together, they just don't, so I think that's what I would do in this paragraph, so let's go ahead and do a quick review so my thesis is: I mostly agree with the statement, which means I have a concession point in some cases in some fields, so there is an example one and an example two fields that are academic fields my example would be something stupid, something everyday like football, it doesn't have to be, It could be like cooking, for example, okay, you know how to cook, you would say, oh, you know, when you first learn to cook, you know, some of these dishes seem very complex, but over time you learn, oh, actually , you just use five ingredients or something and then I go into the medical field.

Give an example about germs and viruses and how you know that these diseases were explained by really arcane and external forces, but we actually found out that it was other organisms in the cases of germs that are causing these things. and then I move on to support point one. The point of this paragraph is that we begin to learn how some processes and phenomena are influenced by so many different factors, they are multifactorial and I would try to give as many examples as possible. Definitely at least one, hopefully two, and I think the example I gave here was the weather and then finally from my last body I started talking about how we overcome these obstacles or barriers that we just can't explain and I actually gave two good examples. here. matter, dark energy from the world of astronomy and then quantum theory doesn't work well with Einsteinian physics.

Know? Have you ever heard of the search for a unified theory? You know, like I said, with some of this physics stuff you start to get into some really weird stuff. weird stuff like string theory and multiple universes and all that, that's how I would approach this essay, that's how I would organize it, it's certainly not the only way to organize this, but whenever I do the post, that's usually the route that I take, or I go mostly agree mostly disagree I put my concession and the body of the paragraph one and then I have two supporting points, okay, I hope that was helpful if you have any questions, let me know, you know how to contact me, greg matt testing emails. at gmail.com we will talk soon I hope everyone has a good night