Chapter 3 Reading Response By Sabastian Stevens

Chapter 3 Reading Response By Sabastian Stevens

When I pored over the information in chapter 3, it made me feel like I was in high school again. Learning about topic sentences, body paragraphs and conclusions brought a powerful sense of deja vu and did not educate me very much. Regardless, I did learn of a few refined techniques for polishing important sections of the essay and of a few questions one can ask while writing their work to affirm their purpose. For example, if you or your reader are asking yourself, "What does <your subject> smell like?", your goal in your essay is probably describing your topic. However, if the question is "What happened, and when?", you are probably writing a narrative. Either way, it is important to ask yourself these questions through each draft until you can answer them with confidence. I also found out about useful ways to start introductions to essays, such as beginning with a story or surprising statement to win the audience's attention, and following off strong arguments from there. I learned similar concepts for the conclusion as well, such as making a prediction of results that may happen due to ideal or not ideal courses of action. Everything else was review, however, and that made the chapter seem surprisingly short and uninformative. Hopefully, the next chapter is much more useful and eye-opening.

Sabastian Stevens-SDE