Instead of opening with someone else’s views, you could start with an illustrative quotation, a revealing fact or statistic, or— as we do in this chapter—a relevant anecdote.
It is always a good start to begin with a very good imagery to set your argument to the person who is opposed you. Easily creating a scene that they can put them selves and trying to be in somebody else's shoes to see it from a whole new and different perspective.
we also believe that you need to present that argument as part of some larger conversation, indicating something about the arguments of others that you are supporting, opposing, amending, complicating, or qualifying.
I understand making the argument a larger conversation and having people hear you but what is it that you do that will get it through their heads and make them understand your points/opinions/facts just as much as you are understanding theirs also to see where they are coming from with that involving the argument and obviously giving good details to express yourself.
remember that you are entering a conversation and therefore need to start with “what others are saying,” as the title of this chapter recommends, and then introduce your own ideas as a response.
It is giving you advice to begin an argument but that you need to be clear that realize what others opinions/facts are you first begin with what others are saying and then you continue with your own ideas and straight to the point.
writer needs to indicate clearly not only what his or her thesis is, but also what larger conversation that thesis is responding to.
Sometimes writing a thesis could be difficult, I think that if i tried to find a larger conversation to that the thesis is responding to would be a lot more going into it and figuring out where you are heading with the conversation when you explain your thesis.
So can I just use Google or Bing to find sources?
They can be good to use but then again sometimes you can not always find what you need to at the moment or you might just not find the correct item you need to.
Yes, the Internet has cut down on the amount of physical walking you need to do to find sources.
This is very true, after hearing what parents used to do back in their day this generation has really changed a lot. Like imagine having to walk in hazardous weather to the library because you procrastinated for too long to work on a research paper.
“forms of meaning you use to make new meaning.”
To me this means taking something that already means something to others, analyzing and seeing how it can have a different meaning or definition just making it different in the way that you see it.
Lots of people are worried about bad water. I might even get questions about it from my clients once I finish my program.
I may have to agree that many people are worried for water because it is usually one of the resources that we really use the most besides oxygen. Water has many abilities when it comes to our life... yes we can drink other liquids to get rid of thirst but there is never like drinking a nice cold cup of water after a long day.Though some might not appreciate it as much there are third world countries do not really have for that privilege that the water being so polluted causes them to get sick. badly and I mean they barely have medicine
I shouldn’t use Wikipedia.
Wikipedia is not always a good source to use because so many people have the power to edit meaning they can change the truth and just add lies to it when they feel like it. I myself can literally make a whole page of myself on Wikipedia putting fake achievements and everything. The same goes for history events and dates.
“source address”?
Knowing and learning how to cite your sources is such a great thing because you try to make sure and safe yourself that you do not get in trouble to seeming smart and using other peoples ideas or info and just taking credit for it.
Don’t forget to ask for help when you’re looking around for sources. Reference librarians make very good guides;
Finding sources is always such a blessing because it helps you gain information on a topic you are not really familiar with like any person who is just smart.
Congratulations on getting started early!
It is always good to get started early because just in case if you run into a problem that you do not know how to fix and you end up needing help you can always contact your professor to help you understand the project slightly better than when it was first introduced to the class. You can also just have a bit of move time to come up with ideas or which direction you want to go with the assignment.
obsessed with avoiding commitment
If you get hurt so bad after loving somebody so much and giving them your all, you tend to just be on your own and avoid commitment because as humans just like touching fire once learning it is hot and we are aware to not touch it again it is the same with love we are afraid to go through it again and maintain our self's committed to not go through it again.
“Love”
Love is a very strong word most importantly the biggest emotion when you are born. When we are young we learn to love and trust many that later when we are teenagers we do not know the difference from love or just being treated badly. It's even harder when you love so hard and so much. Love can be such a beautiful thing yet so evil when it is in the hands of somebody who does not really care enough to treat it correctly and just puts it aside. You can always try to make the other person understand how you feel but they will never know until you are no longer in their life because they realized what they lost and that they truly love you
Then sometimes I’d hear about somebody I knew from college who had made bank starting some business or who had some awesome job at Google or something.
Seeing others succeed can be kinda difficult especially throughout a hard time in your life. The truth is you just want to be happy for the other person and celebrate them. Except the back of your mind is just like trying to figure out what the hell you"re doing in life or with yourself.
She moved from nanny job to yoga retreat and back again as she waited for what she called “that lightning bolt of intuition.”
Helen somebody who does not know what job to do. Sometimes it is hard for other because there are times when it is not even about looking or finding a job also maybe a path way in life but finding yourself and getting to know who you are as a person and noticing your mistakes.
twentysomethings spend too many years living without perspective
I think this could be many peoples fear. To be in in their twenties without a clue about what they want in their life, sometimes maybe about what their passion is also maybe just a financial plan because maybe they do not have a job or career that they really care to do.
You are young and life is long
Facts! When you are young everything seems to go by slow because you have so much ahead of your life to experience and live through. Like going to school and taking classes, meeting different people, and many many types of teachers to experience. Then you also have to meet many people and figure out your love life and get to know the person and their ways.
When I got married with my dude, we still had a lot of doubts, because our relationship is not like everybody’s
This is understandable because they are both popular but he also cheated and cardi is not one to mess with about. Do i really have to bring up the time when Cardi B threw shoe at Nicki Minaj just because she liked post about her being a bad mother which i understand and cardi was suppose to just address the comments but instead she went directly to attack her and had to be held back.
When I got pregnant, I was fucking freaking out,
It doesn't surprise me that she was freaking out, but to be honest she made it happen and seems to be a really good mother. Cardi B does not have a filter when it comes to speaking up or expressing herself she does not give a single care about the things she says or what people think about her.
“I am less afraid to say that I listen to the spirits who talk to me. I am exploring my spirituality because every piece of art is a spiritual act,” she said.
Oh my goodness. From being a 5 year old moving to the US then visiting Mexico so much after that transition just seeing every detail from there and having a different perspective on it. It changes your emotions and views on things.
Stories from My Life
Writing stories about your own life can just be a breath of fresh air and just so relieving. To me ,stories about my life I find very interesting and moving because i get to learn so much about my past and reminisces on memories.
Her 1984 novel “The House on Mango Street”
Very popular novel that is read across the country during 8th grade most student like me really seem to enjoy that novel. I think it's because they can really relate to it.
The basic tools for an interview are paper and some well-sharpened pencils. Is that insultingly obvious advice? You’d be surprised how many writers venture forth to stalk their quarry with no pencil, or with one that breaks, or with a pen that doesn’t work, and with nothing to write on.
It is always good to be prepared and have the materials you need ready just in case. You could also do voice memos to recollect on the tone of the interviewee also to catch if you forget to right some of the main points down. You could type instead of writing but it is better to be safe that sorry in case of a file or document being deleted.
If you are a college student, don’t interview your roommate. With all due respect for what terrific roommates you’ve got, they probably don’t have much to say that the rest of us want to hear.
It would always be a good idea to interview somebody who would be brutally honest with you and you wont get hurt by the comments or think different about them because of the things they said. Maybe they are conservative and your roommate and you are liberal and then in your brain it switches your opinion on them and the way you think of them when you guys do not see eye to eye on things.
His own words will always be better than your words
The interviewee words and the way it is being portrayed is different because its his/her opinions and responses about what they are being asked show us their raw emotions.
Get people talking. Learn to ask questions that will elicit answers about what is most interesting or vivid in their lives.
To begin an interview this is saying that you need to loosen the person to see what type of questions you could ask technically just to make them feel comfortable during the interview and just appropriate questions.
LIVING WITH OTHERS
This is something new to people since they have to get used to other people's habits than their own. I think having to talk to the other person living there might be one of the most difficult things to due since you really just want them to listen you and no issues.
LOVE
To me love is a very strong word to use and people should be careful on who you use it one. That way some people don't get their feelings hurt when it comes to feeling or hearing it.
route to greater happiness and fulfilment.
I like this the word choice on using 'route' it just gives you an image and explanation on what the writer is trying to prove.
what are your talents at work
This question I would not know how to respond due to me never even having a job once in my life. I would hope my talents would be good though someday...
Know Yourself
This is something I have struggled to figure out. I have an idea of the kind of person I am but I really do not have much clarity on it. I think it has to be with the fact that many people have different opinions of me and ways to describe me of the type of person I am. Also, the fact that everybody has different versions of themselves.
perfectionism will ruin your writing
Trying to be a perfect writer will actually get in the way trying to fix something or make it better and having writers block.
the enemy of the people
This hits close to home because perfectionism is something I have always tried to achieve, being the only daughter and feeling like I had to compete with my brothers to prove to my parents that i was capable of many great things and achievements. I let it get to me so bad that the phrase "the enemy of the people." I confirm that perfectionism is an enemy, maybe even worse than my actual enemy.
then find themselves bounding along like huskies across the snow.
I like the way they used this metaphor. It is also just something I can picture very well in my mind because of the imagery.
Not one of them writes elegant first drafts.
From experience, my first drafts are not even worthy for people to read. They are honestly embarrassing because of the many mistakes that are there in the first place.
uninitiated
Adjective Without special knowledge or experience.
how much talent they have
I praise people who are good writers, lowkey writing has not really been my thing. I enjoy it and interest me but I just have not gotten the hang of it all these years being able to write anything.
“Shitty First Drafts”
Seems to me that the narrator obviously has a background story, with this name title it seems as if they have tried many times at things but they just fail and do not get to where they want to.
My teacher bends over me, gently squeezes my shoulders, the squeeze I give my sons, hands louder than words.
Seems to be that the narrator of the poem's teacher might be hard on her like she is on her children. "Hands louder than words" the teacher never had to say anything, she could just send the energy and what she was trying to show her with a gentle squeeze on her shoulders.
Straight as a nun I sit.
With this sentence I can place a setting in my head that this person is just standing very very still. Nun's always tend to just be having to set the good example and present themselves well, including their posture.
but don’t want to inherit her place by the window.
Esperanza did not want to be like her great-grandmother who held back from her great-grandfather. By not wanting to "inherit her place by the window" meant that she also just didn't want to be useless.
inherited
Inherited means received as an heir at the death of the previous holder.
“My Name,”
With the title I believe that she is just going to talk about her name. I didn't really expect for her to really build a story and give descriptions and emotions on her name. The analogies the author writes makes you go into depth and see the details.
She looked out the window her whole life, the way so many women sit their sadness on an elbow.
I see it as like after her great-grandmother got married she wasn't able to be the strong woman she was because she was held back because seems to be that back then in those days they really didn't have any ruling over their husbands.
Until my great-grandfather threw a sack over her head and carried her off.
Though her great-grandmother was wild enough to not marry what the narrator meant with this line was that her great-grandfather was the one to get to her head and carry her off as his wife.
Mexican records my father plays on Sunday mornings when he is shaving, song like sobbing.
With Mexican records or songs they are mostly about hope and sadness. She talks about sobbing because she doesn't really seem to like her name.