The Ultimate Guide to the Gettysburg Address by David Hirsch Dan Van Haften

Author:David Hirsch, Dan Van Haften [David Hirsch, Dan Van Haften]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, United States, Civil War Period (1850-1877), Modern, 19th Century, Military, General, Biography & Autobiography, Historical
ISBN: 9781940669670
Google: PJQTDgAAQBAJ
Publisher: Savas Publishing
Published: 2017-03-19T03:19:05+00:00

Synergies

The payoff of internalizing the six elements for writing, speaking, reading, listening, and understanding, is handsome. Persuasive composition becomes easy. Critical analysis becomes automatic.

To understand any one element, there must be at least a rudimentary grasp of all six. While the six elements can be listed in linear order, they interact multidimensionally. Each element synergistically extends to the other five elements with simple elegance and textured complexity. The six element method of thinking and composition provides structure, location, and purpose for words. The six elements channel passion, and enhance expression.

The six elements of a proposition are ideally suited to well-prepared, careful drafting. Once internalized, the six elements can change the way you think and handle information. The six elements facilitate faster and better analysis.

A mind comfortable with the six elements can better deal with impromptu situations. The elements dynamically organize facts, perfectly weaving in logic. A fact-based Given (the first part of the Enunciation), a slightly more sophisticated fact-based Exposition, plus a largely fact-based Construction, form an anchor of truth. Logic develops on a foundation of fact. Everything is structured into the right place. Place is timing.

A six-element proposition begins with general, indisputable facts (the Given), followed by a neutral, high-level statement of what is Sought. The Given should recite the most basic, obvious, indisputable facts that will be built on. The Sought leads to additional needed facts (the Exposition) that lead to a precise Specification of what will be proved. The Gettysburg Address Sought, “testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure”, is both neutral and general.

An Exposition factually builds without arguing. The Exposition recites additional facts that are necessary and obviously true.

The Specification asserts those buried on the battlefield “gave their lives that that nation might live.”

Facts are arrayed in a Construction that lead to a Proof that scientifically proves precisely what was specified. The Construction can be innovative, simple, or complex. It can be short or long. It should be largely fact based. Even if complex, it must be understandable. It is the transition to argument (Proof ). The Construction itself should not argue (at least not directly), or credibility is risked. A Construction sets up the Proof.

The Gettysburg Address Construction transitions, “But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.” This leads to the Proof that the living must (and presumably will) complete the unfinished work for the United States to survive. It argues what the living must do (complete the unfinished work) for the nation to survive “that these dead shall not have died in vain”.

Facts are more important than logic. Without facts, there is nothing upon which logic can rest. The Gettysburg Address builds on a few general

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