Chapter 5 exercise 1

When reading the passage from the historian Julie Charlip, it was for the most part easy to identify between her referring to other people's ideas and referring to her own.  She separated the "they say" from the "I say" very well.  For example she refers to views of others in the article when she writes, Marx and Engels wrote..., I once asked a sociology professor what he thought... his definition, and the average American will tell you.  When adding her own input she makes it obvious by making various statements such as, I find myself..., But I always felt that..., I'm sure thats what..., and As a historian...

At first when I read this passage it wasn't as obvious because I didn't know what I was really looking for, but after I re-read it, it became clear that she clearly distinguished between her personal thoughts and thoughts of others.  It sometimes is hard to make it clear who idea you are talking about, but the templates from this section will make it a lot easier.

Chapter 4 exercise 1

She first states what the issue is, then gives two opinions on the problem.  She talks about how Bowles and Gintis said that there are rewards for different behaviors that come from the different social classes.  On the other hand, Bernstein, Bourdieu, and Apple talk about how certain knowledge and skills are favored to the upper classes more then the working classes.  When you read this section of the writing you could possibly assume that she is agreeing with the main problem stated in the first sentence of the reading, but then she goes into talking about how there hasn't been any huge attempts to research the issue.  You could easily conclude that she disagrees on the situation because she doesn't feel like she has enough background information on the problem to believe anything anyone says. Overall I would say that Jean Anyon has an agree/disagree standpoint on the situation.

Exercise 7j

- In terms of layout and design Cassidy Trom was not going for the typical boring research paper that you would expect in an english class.  Instead this paper brings in large titles, pictures, captions, and enlarged quotes to clearly show her main topic.  It is very unlikely that you would get bored when reading this paper because even though there are words surrounding everything, the pictures help explain what is being talked about.  Her layout seems like it is more for a newspaper then an english class.  This style of writing is probably the biggest help when it comes to the emphasizing part.  If you were to write a typical paper with no pictures or large headlines, then it would be harder to show what your emphasis is, but with the capability of using pictures, the main points are obvious.  

- This layout will affect how the audience reads it because they will read what is most interesting first.  Like for example the title is large and bolded, obviously I am going to take the time to read the title because it must be important if bolded.  Normally when reading a regular research paper I don't pay as much attention to the title because it is just like everything else.  The pictures will be looked at as soon as you flip to the next page, which might not be a bad thing because it gives a some what preview of what you are about to read about.  I find the large quotes interesting because it shows you that the writer feels like this is important and that we should comprehend it and understand how it works in with the paper.  The way the paper is set up also breaks up the reading so it is not all one long paper.  This may be beneficial because instead of getting bored from what you are reading, the reader may actually enjoy reading what the paper is about.

- If the fancy stuff was removed, the paper would just turn into an ordinary, boring research paper.  You would have to have some other way to make your paper stand out from everyone else's.  Without the emphasis of all the stuff added, this paper would not be as exciting and wouldn't be as attention grabbing as it was before.  The content of the paper wouldn't change at all, and it would still be a great paper, it's just the point would not be proven as easily as it would have with the pictures and bolded sections.