What is the best way to introduce theory and fact to your essays?
Sid McVeigh
often find it difficult to introduce the fact in a seamless way. Do
any of you have any tips for me?
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Tim McNamara
Sid McVeigh <sidmc...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> I'm not a big fan of theory, and while I understand the point - I
> often find it difficult to introduce the fact in a seamless way. Do
> any of you have any tips for me?
The question is so vague that it is very hard to answer. Essays about
what? To which audience?
Dan Rogers
"Sid McVeigh" <sidmc...@googlemail.com> wrote in message
news:SPPM1070601...@psychcentral.com...
> I'm not a big fan of theory, and while I understand the point - I
> often find it difficult to introduce the fact in a seamless way. Do
> any of you have any tips for me?
You seem to have an incorrect notion of what "theory" means, so you need to
clarify that.
A theory is not a conjecture or a hypothesis: it is the best explanation of
the available and observed facts. Thus, the theory of gravity was a better
explanation of the facts available to Newton that were other explanations,
such as mutual attraction.
In psychology, cognitive dissonance did a better job of incorporating and
explaining what we observed than did prevailing theories.
Approach-avoidance conflict did a better job of explaining neurosis than
psychoanalysis.
Theories change as further data accrue and need to be explained. That is
well and good.
Dan