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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 4713406" data-attributes="member: 177">Your examples should have been chosen to specifically extend and refine your argument, so that it made the meat more clear - folks should be able to address the examples as exemplars of what you're talking about, and then generalize back to the larger view.  If the example does not represent your real point, remove it.  I expect these are connected.  With 3000 words, you are apt to be less focused than you think - so the reader is free to focus on something they think is important, that you don't.  If it wasn't the meat of your argument, it shouldn't have been in the piece for them to call out.Self-editing is important.  If you don't know why folks responded this way, try cutting it down to the bits that you feel are absolutely essential, and try again.</blockquote>