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Narayan Silva edited this page Nov 3, 2025 · 10 revisions

Creating organized paragraphs

  • Use Introduction for each beginning of a new paragraph. In this field you should say in a few words what this paragraph is about.

  • Use Argument to develop the idea of a paragraph. So that it doesn't become tiresome for the reader, each paragraph should contain 1 to 2 Argument fields.

  • Use Quote for direct quotes that contain 4 lines or more. For direct quotes of up to three lines, there is no need for special formatting; in this case, make the quote within Argument.

  • Use Argument Resumption for each beginning of a new paragraph that it is directly connected to paragraph before (when you don't have a Conclusion yet).

  • Use Conclusion to finalize an idea. Use key words to indicate that you are concluding the discussion.

Argument Resumption: Sometimes, explaining a concept or elaborating an idea cannot be finished in a single paragraph, given its complexity. In these cases, a paragraph can end with the Argument box and in the new paragraph it begins with Argument Resumption, using key words that clearly indicate that paragraph being started is a continuation of the previous one.

For indirect quote always use the Argument box.

Example 1: Complete paragraph, low complexity.

Introduction: BigCommunity emerged from the community's desire to use BigLinux with other "flavors".

Quote: "Although a distro may perform satisfactorily, bring exclusive tools, meet specific demands of a region, adaptation to the graphical interface is a crucial step in a user's journey, the importance of this stage is such that many users decide on a Linux distro based on its interface as the main requirement of their choices". (2025, p.1)

Argument: The attempt to reconcile the community's desire with the differentials that BigLinux already presented was what drove the Big Community project. In it, the community comes together (not without help from the devs) to create other ISOs with other interfaces. Currently, there are three: Big Gnome, Big XFCE and Big Cinnamon.

Conclusion: It was, then, because of this project, that BigLinux expanded its reach, reached more users and engaged them to actively participate in creating the system that is always seeking improvement.

Example 2: Interconnected paragraphs, higher complexity.

Introduction: Lacan continues talking about the two narcissisms, he establishes that there is a narcissism that relates to body image and that gives unity to the subject, gives form to his Umwelt [environment] (1953, p. 131).

Argument: It is the imaginary organization of the image that is produced from the concave mirror, its insertion in the world at the same time as real objects. Freud had already called this Ideal-Ich (ego ideal). And there would be, then, another narcissism beyond reflection, which deals with the relationship with the other.

Argument: To speak of this relationship with the other in the second narcissism, another term from Freud is taken up, Ich-Ideal (ideal ego), which is positioned as that which "allows man to situate exactly what in his being has the fundamental libidinal imaginary relationship with the world in general, that is, allows him to 'see' in his place, structure, based on this place, on his world, what is properly his being" (1953, p. 132). He also adds that the subject sees his being in this reflection in the relationship with the other, in relation to the Ich-Ideal.

Argument Resumption: The second mirror, then, marks another type of opposition, that already announced by Freud, the Ich-Ideal as the opposite form to the Ideal-Ich (1953, p. 154).

Argument: The Ego Ideal articulates, as we have seen, the Imaginary and the Real, while the Ideal Ego, Lacan locates in the relationship with the other, in that which his "being" is formed for the world from this other, he says that "it is the symbolic relationship that defines the position of the subject as seer [one who sees]. It is the word, the symbolic function that can(...) define the greater or lesser degree of perfection, completeness, approximation of the imaginary" (1953, p.160).

Conclusion: In this way, Lacan uses the second mirror to show the relationship between Symbolic and Imaginary in the constitution of the subject.

(You can separate Argument in two Argumnet Dialog Boxes, if it gets easier to reread or find a specific part of it)

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