Chapter 8 Reading Response

Chapter 8 Reading Response

I learned a lot about using examples correctly in chapter 8. While I knew previously that good examples in any essay made writing more compelling, I never really stopped to think about how many examples should be used in a piece of writing or how to format them. Now I know that a formal and informative college paper is usually fine with only one example, whereas a dissection of a novel may need 10 or more examples! I also learned about using commas correctly when talking about three or more things.

I also read many essays in this chapter that I thought were very interesting. Partly because I liked the topics, but also because the authors included vivid examples, some of which I could easily relate to. Particularly, I liked Farhad Manjoo's "No, I Do Not Want To Pet Your Dog" essay, because he used many examples of annoying dogs that I could relate to so easily (since I live in the most dog-infested apartments on the friggin' planet). I also liked the examples in Maia Szalavitz's "Ten Ways We Get the Odds wrong". The details were neatly organized into little sections that seemed to go on for the perfect amount of lines to keep my attention while still informing me.

Therefore, I found this chapter very interesting and informative. Hopefully, we get more chapters like this later in the book.