Fragmenting

I want you the fragment and analyze a text.  Please watched the accompanying PowerPoint where i explain what I have in mind and review the example I have provided that I have done this myself.  I want you to take the text I give you below and do the following:

1. Fragment the text into separate sentences breaking up conjunctions and deleting “window dressing” text.


2. Identify the Thesis Statement


3. The rest of the sentences are either premises, restatement of the thesis, or irrelevant


4. Draw Arrows as a Graphic as to which sentences are offered in support of which sentences. (e.g. A ---> B indicates that you think sentence A was offered as support for sentence B.


5. *Schematize Argument (Optional)


6. *Flow Chart It (Optional)

Links to an explanation of this assignment as well as a PowerPoint presentation on this assignment can be found on the lesson plan for this course ((10/7/19).

https://online.fiu.edu/videos/?vpvid=06047cb5-a6b6-4116-b0f7-e35f14ccebb5 (Links to an external site.)

Here is the text I want you to analyze for this assignment:

Text to Analyze:

Therefore, just because I know certainly that I exist, and that meanwhile I do not remark that any other thing necessarily pertains to my nature or essence, excepting that I am a thinking thing, I rightly conclude that my essence consists solely in the fact that I am a thinking thing [or a substance whose whole essence or nature is to think]. And although possibly (or rather certainly, as I shall say  in a moment) I possess a body with which I am very intimately conjoined, yet because, on the one side, I have a clear and distinct idea of myself inasmuch as I am only a thinking and unextended thing, and as, on the other, I possess a distinct idea of body, inasmuch as it is only an extended and unthinking thing, it is certain that this I [that is to say, my soul by which I am what I am], is entirely and absolutely distinct from my body, and can exist without it.[1]