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Use to situate a Critical Inquiry (CI) essay within the conversations it enters across the arts and humanities. CI is interdisciplinary, so positioning means naming the critical and theoretical debates the essay joins — across literature, art, film, philosophy, politics, history — and the precise place where it intervenes, not a discipline-internal literature review. Frames the stakes; it does not write the prose.

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# Scholarly Positioning (ci-scholarly-positioning)

A CI essay enters a **conversation**, not a "literature." Positioning means naming the debate(s) the
essay joins — which may run across several fields — and locating the exact point where your
intervention bites. This is not a social-science literature review and not a dutiful survey; it is the
argumentative map that shows why the field needs this essay now.

## When to trigger

- After topic selection, to define whose conversation you are entering
- The argument is strong but readers ask "what's at stake / who are you arguing with?"
- The essay touches several fields and you must decide which debates to foreground
- A Critical Response that must engage a specific prior CI piece precisely
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