... without this very precise explanation the reader would find themselves a bit confused. (Barton 71-79) Barton makes many claims to the significance of his subject matter but at the same time gives many warnings as to how the reader must interpret her findings and theories. At the beginning of every chapter, Barton gives an almost mission statement-like introduction where she not only outlines the subject matter, but why she is discussing it. Barton also seems to preemptively defend any arguments that the reader might arrive at while reading the chapter by defending and justifying her reasons for delving into such strange topics by quoting authors and making it sound like his case will be better than all of these past cases together. This is also done at the end of each chapter where Barton discusses why she did not discuss certain aspects of the argument and attempts to justify ...

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