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Lesson Plans \| Course Documents \| Links \| Citing Sources \| Writing Center \| Home Page Context This serves two purposes: 1) it sets up your point/argument by telling the reader why you're bringing up a particular source or quote, and 2) it gives the reader information to help identify the speaker or place the speaker or example in the given work. For example, a description from The System could be introduced in the following manner: Even before Kuper shows the corrupt cop shaking down the drug dealer, the officer's apathy is made clear. As the first victim goes down the stairs into the subway where she'll be murdered, he's pictured eating a donut, facing away from her(13). Context helps readers 1) by making the reader think "Oh yeah, now I remember that part" and 2) by letting readers better understand (and thus agree with) your argument by framing it in a manner so they can understand it. Here, it's clear that the Kuper wants to accentuate the ineffectiveness of the police (one of the failed systems). The sentence leading up to the quote does this by planting the word "corrupt" and “apathy in the reader's mind, which is then reflected in the quotes. By setting up your example so clearly, your argument flows logically from example to the explanation, leaving the reader with a satisfied "Ahhh" as opposed to a befuddled "huh?" The writer would then proceed to explain the connotations of a donut (perfect touch, right?) and looking away from the victim to complete the argument. © David Bordelon 2016

Dr. Bordelon's Graphic Novel Course

Context

This serves two purposes: 1) it sets up your point/argument by telling the reader why you're bringing up a particular source or quote, and 2) it gives the reader information to help identify the speaker or place the speaker or example in the given work. For example, a description from The System could be introduced in the following manner:

Even before Kuper shows the corrupt cop shaking down the drug dealer, the officer's apathy is made clear. As the first victim goes down the stairs into the subway where she'll be murdered, he's pictured eating a donut, facing away from her(13).

Context helps readers 1) by making the reader think "Oh yeah, now I remember that part" and 2) by letting readers better understand (and thus agree with) your argument by framing it in a manner so they can understand it. Here, it's clear that the Kuper wants to accentuate the ineffectiveness of the police (one of the failed systems). The sentence leading up to the quote does this by planting the word "corrupt" and “apathy in the reader's mind, which is then reflected in the quotes. By setting up your example so clearly, your argument flows logically from example to the explanation, leaving the reader with a satisfied "Ahhh" as opposed to a befuddled "huh?"

The writer would then proceed to explain the connotations of a donut (perfect touch, right?) and looking away from the victim to complete the argument.