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jaar-argument-development
Use when building the central argument of a Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JAAR) article. JAAR explicitly wants an essay that "has a point" — analysis with a contestable thesis, not description or survey. Structures the argument; it does not gather the sources.
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# Argument Development (jaar-argument-development)
JAAR's own guidance is blunt: an article must **"have a point."** Description, summary, or a tour of a
tradition will not do — the essay must **argue** something a competent reader could dispute, and defend
it with evidence and method. This skill turns material into a thesis-driven argument.
## When to trigger
- The material is rich but the "so what / what am I claiming?" is thin
- A reader called the draft "descriptive," "a survey," or "without a thesis"
- You need to sharpen a contestable claim and its stakes
- Reconciling a complex case with a single throughline
## Build the argument