The way Helen Fisher writes this excerpt makes a good structure for a logical argument. She makes a claim in a paragraph. For example in the section "On Attachment", she makes claims about how love changes over time and becomes deeper and calmer. Then, in the next paragraph, "The Chemistry of attachment" she backs up her claim with medical research about chemicals in the brain that she believes are responsible for this.
"Web of Love" is written very well and uses a variety of logical arguments. The author uses personal accounts of her friend in the section Does Lust Trigger Romance?. In many sections she uses results from animal testing to prove her claims. She also uses medical research, and refers to the work of many psycholigists and psychiatrists. All of these facts and resources are documented in almost ten pages of footnotes, which all appear to be credible sources. This makes Helen Fisher's arguments about lust, romance and attachment also seem credible.
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Good, but you may want to, for future analyzes, go a little more into detail. She does use personal stories; but why? What does that do for her argument?
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