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Besides creating an outline using chronological order, the emphatic order method is often used. Emphatic order asks you to organize your paper in the order of how strong your examples are (hence the word "emphatic" or placing emphasis on certain information over other pieces of information based upon importance). In creating an emphatically ordered outline / paper, the biggest decision you must make is which pieces of information are your strongest and weakest and why each can be considered strongest or weakest. In determining this, you will, of course, want to take how much support you have and how much explaining of that information you engage in. In addition, the quality of information should be taken into account. The development of each paragraph will largely be the same in format and content as a chronologically based outline / essay. When you order your emphatically based information, make sure that you either start with your strongest point (to wow your reader right away, so to speak) and end with your weakest (of course, "weakest" doesn't mean it should be a lame point). Contrarily, you may choose to do what most students do and arrange your points start with the weakest and finishing with your strongest point (thereby creating a crescendo effect which leaves your reader's mouth open). The main idea here, is to avoid, at all costs, simply throwing your strongest point somewhere in the middle of your paper (yeah, I know it will get read, but it will lose some of the argumentative effectiveness).
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