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What parts of the book’s advice are helpful for writing in this genre?
What parts of the book’s advice on these topics might not be so helpful, considering the genre you’re writing in?
- The PIE organizational method is helpful in some ways, because it ties in neatly with the rubric expectation that we provide evidence and then analyze. However, considering we are not writing a conventional essay, this may not apply to every individual paragraph. Instead, it can be incorporated in the entire piece here and there.
- The introduction tips are crucial to our project. It is important that the beginning grabs the reader's attention, but not in the glaring ways that the book describes like the anecdote or rhetorical question. Forecasting what the piece will be about should be the purpose of the intro, and it should not be filled with unnecessary "fluff." The key to the QRG is conciseness.
- Organization is important to remember, because the QRG needs to tell a story. We need to provide the connections so that readers know how one thing lead to another in our controversy
- The relevant suggestions for writing a conclusion for our piece are: "answer 'so what'," "look forward," and "paint a picture." It is important that our conclusions are an amplification of our analysis
What parts of the book’s advice on these topics might not be so helpful, considering the genre you’re writing in?
- Our QRGs don't necessarily have thesis statements. We are not really taking a stand or arguing anything, just providing information and analyzing it critically. We can, however, use the handbook's thesis advice about making things interesting, precise, and reflective of our paper in our introduction paragraph.
- In-text citations are not necessarily useful in this context, because we are hyperlinking and including pertinent information that justifies the use of the direct quotes from certain parties in our debates
Reflection: In reading Mark's post, I was reminded that we need to stay away from the argumentative writing that the handbook details. Our QRGs should allow readers to come to their own conclusions. Addie's post reinforced the idea that we have to assume the reader is coming in with minimal to no background knowledge.
*Things to look at in my draft*
1.) I should ensure that my piece remains reasonably unbiased and thouroughly explains the thoughts and feelings of both sides of the arguement.
2.) I should revise my conclusion so that it also "paints a picture" of the conflict for my audience
3.) I need to ensure that the organization I have in my piece tells the story of my conflict
It looks like we feel the same about most of the drafting suggestions given in the book. The conclusion is where we differ, but it may just be that I hate writing conclusions. Either way, this looks good.
ReplyDeleteAnn Emilie, I totally agree with your statements about the PIE method and the QRG being different than a conventional formal essay. Plus I never liked writing in a strict format, so I think that we should just use the PIE method as sort of a general guide, and not something that must be followed sentence for sentence. I also agree with your claim that the QRG is supposed to be a story-telling type of text, while being informative at the same time. However, I don't agree with your point that the thesis statement is unnecessary here. A thesis statement is not just for stating the main point in an argument. It's more like a first impression, designed to give readers a quick look into what your QRG will be about. It doesn't have to be formal either, maybe you could incorporate it into your intro just to strengthen it a little bit. Anyways, I liked how you highlighted the main points in your post. Overall, great work on this.
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