Tactics
- Compare goal, diagnosis, action, and safeguard separately.
- Use precise verbs such as concedes, qualifies, challenges, and prioritizes.
- Test assumptions with an if statement.
- Describe tone with evidence rather than personality labels.
Pitfalls
- Merging writers because they value the same broad outcome.
- Treating a concession as abandonment of the main claim.
- Inventing motives that the argument does not require.
Compare at multiple levels
Actions
- Create matching rows for both writers.
- Compare claims at the same level of abstraction.
- State agreement and difference in separate sentences.
Example
Lesson
Agreement changes depending on whether the question asks about goal, evidence, or action.
Context
Two residents want public water access. One supports a permanent pilot; the other supports temporary event equipment first.