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ci-structure-and-exposition

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Use to architect a Critical Inquiry (CI) essay — the order in which intervention, objects, and theory unfold so a reader from another field can follow an ambitious argument. CI essays are long-form humanistic prose, not IMRaD reports; this skill shapes the opening, the build, the turn, and the close. It structures the essay; it does not draft full sections.

When to use

• Outlining the essay
• Reordering a draft that does not flow
• Fixing arguments where the reader gets lost or bored
• Improving introductions that bury stakes
• Improving closes that fizzle
• Connecting disconnected set pieces
• Structuring the CI arc
• Exposition for a cross-field reader

When not to use

• Drafting full sections
• Forcing IMRaD templates
• Creating false suspense in introductions
• Restating rather than opening in conclusions

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