17.6-《超越感觉》-进行调查-管理冗长的材料（1）

17.6-Conducting Inquiry-Managing lengthy Material

进行调查-管理冗长的材料

Often your inquiry will take you beyond editorials and brief essays to full-length articles and books.
通常，你的调查会使你从杜伦和简短的文章超越到完成的文章和书籍。

• These longer works are more difficult to evaluate because the core arguments are seldom presented neatly and compactly. The authors of these arguments do not intend to make analysis difficult it is simply the nature of the writing process.
  这些长篇书籍更加难以评估，因为它们的核心观点很少简洁明了地呈现出来。这些观点的作者并不打断把分析变得困难，这仅仅是写作过程的本质。

• Responsible authors of journal articles and books do not merely present lists of bald assertions; they support their views with evidence.
  期刊文章和书籍的负责人的作者不只是呈现了一串单调的断言，他们还以证据支持自己的观点。

• They also add sufficient explanation to satisfy the demands of clearity and define the path their reasoning has taken. Sometimes the path has numerous turns, so secondary assertions must be added to complement and refine primary ones.
  他们也会添加充分的解释以满足清晰的需求，并定义他们的推理所采取的路径。有时候路径有很多条，所以必须添加次要断言以补充和完善主要断言。

• As anecdotes multiply, as experimental and statistical data are reported and annotated, and as testimony is detailed, the essential argument can become almost as concealed as the hidden permises it sometimes contains. One permise may be stated on page 2 another on page 5, and the conclusion on page 12.
  随着轶事的增多、实验数据和统计数据的报告和注释，以及证词的详细说明，基本论点可能变得几乎想隐藏的前提一样隐藏起来。