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By Alan Riach Professor of Scottish Literature at Glasgow University
Alan Riach: On writing essays and National s competition THE gentle art of friendly persuasion is always undervalued. It’s done these days by algorithms, exploitative, mathematical, cruelly commercial and decidedly unfriendly. Tobacco, oil, unionism, all big corporations are merciless in what Margaret Thatcher once called “the fires of human appetite and the lust for naked power”. But if you care about language and words, take the time to read carefully and write with sensitivity, the argument can be won by your method as well as your facts. I’d like to think that the essayists addressing the question, “Why should Scotland be independent?” would engage speculation, wondering and playing with ideas, as well as showing themselves capable of marshalling facts and demonstrating conclusively the hard proof – without
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