A moved used by Dostoevsky would be to justify your position- one would have to weigh in on topics with no obvious answer and form an opinion. Once the opinion is formed the individual has to break down reasons, causing the individual to take a position. “When you take a position, you privilege one way of thinking above others” (Mauk, Stayer & Mauk 112). Once the writer adopts a position there has to be a purpose, referred to as the sub-move adopt a positon and purpose. “The position depends on the purpose-the overall motivation of the argument” (Mauk, Stayer & Mauk 113). Academic writers have to ask questions such as who the audience is and what the aim, when using this sub-move is. There also has to be evidence to justify your position, which incorporates the next sub-move- line up the evidence. “Evidence is information from the world beyond the argument” (Maul, Stayer & Mauk 114). After the evidence is lined up, one would have the ability to break down reasons. Breaking down the reasons gives insight on the position you have taken. …show more content…
The protagonist, referred to as Raskolnikov has committed a crime. He is approached by Poerify Petrovich who begins questioning Raskolnikov about an article we wrote, suggesting he was implying extraordinary individuals had the right to commit a murder. “The whole point is that in his article all people are somehow divided into the ‘ordinary’ and the ‘extraordinary’. The ordinary must live in obedience and have no right to transgress the law, because they are, after all, ordinary. While the extraordinary have the right to commit all sorts of crimes and in various ways to transgress the law, because in point of fact they are extraordinary” (Dostoevsky