So the reading was super long and I did it early in the morning before class and I was really tired ha. I honestly don’t remember a lot of it because it was thirty pages and reading that much at once just makes me forget what I read ha. Anyways though there were some cool pointers I guess. I really didn’t like that last section thingy where it had an example of a research paper. I honestly don’t like reading research papers, I mean on occasion if it’s something that really interests me I might enjoy it just a little bit, but I honestly am not a facts and info kind of person. But it was also cool how it talked about the importance of logic, which I think is so true in this kind of paper we are going to be writing, because all the topics provoke this personal opinion inside of us, but we can just use our feelings to persuade others. The evidence and facts are probably more important. I thought the peanut butter and jelly analogy was pretty cool. The bread that represents the foundation of a sandwich, or the thesis statement is the most important thing in the whole paper or sandwich. I liked how they said if we use fallacies our paper will be like a piece of bread with holes in it, or in other words untrustworthy. Then on top of that we need to have the logic and the ethos which is the peanut butter and jelly. Helpful reading but just way way long.
That reading was very long and not an easy read. It is hard for me to read research papers too because they don't have anything that really pulls in the reader unless it is a topic that the reader also feels passionately about. The only problem with that is the people who would enjoy it already have an opinion of their own. I hated reading info about things I don't care about. So I just skim over it... like the reading! :)
ReplyDeleteI really do not like reading, and, like you said, that was way long. I did not particularly enjoy reading all of that stuff. Also, research papers are not always the most fun pieces to read.
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