Reading through chapter 5, I can use this information as a guide for not only papers but in life as well. This whole chapter is mostly about understanding and expanding your mind to ideas that others may have brought to your attention. Much like in your normal life, you naturally judge people and their thoughts because it challenges your way of thinking. Although, if we were to listen and try to understand where they are coming from, it could open our minds to another way of thinking. This is much like writing a causal analysis, research study, exploratory essay, or a cultural analysis. In order to write these essays, you have to consider where other people could disagree with you and consider where they are coming from and why they think the way they do. The how, why, what, when and where questions. Expanding your mind can strengthen you as a writer because then you can argue why you feel the way you do about a topic but also having knowledge about why others would disagree with you.
Chapter 70 is based on several different papers. Just browsing through these papers, you can automatically tell that they are trying to convince you to agree with them on a topic. All the points that were in chapter 5 help these writers to make a paper with explanations and examples. This helps the audience understand where they are coming from and makes it harder for them to argue with the writer because he/she has evidence to back up their thoughts. This could initially help me be a strong writer just by adding evidence and understanding all perspectives. I believe to be a strong writer, you have to have an open mind. Having an open mind leaves you empowered and less ignorant. Having that said, EXPAND YOUR MIND!
Chapter 70 is based on several different papers. Just browsing through these papers, you can automatically tell that they are trying to convince you to agree with them on a topic. All the points that were in chapter 5 help these writers to make a paper with explanations and examples. This helps the audience understand where they are coming from and makes it harder for them to argue with the writer because he/she has evidence to back up their thoughts. This could initially help me be a strong writer just by adding evidence and understanding all perspectives. I believe to be a strong writer, you have to have an open mind. Having an open mind leaves you empowered and less ignorant. Having that said, EXPAND YOUR MIND!
In writing your own causal analysis, hopefully you'll find the way that Chapter 5 breaks down the different types to be helpful. I think that everyone will be writing an exploratory essay or cultural analysis rather than the research-intensive research study since we are only using two sources for this assignment.
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