Yadira (APWH)

Habit 1 

Constructing and evaluating arguments: using evidence to make plausible arguments

       Throughout the school year I have learned how to anaylze documents and have completed assignments testing this skill. You have to read and comprehend the writers point of view in order to state and support your claim. I have learned how to group documents by similarties and differences and how to connect that with the rest of the documents, In addition to I learned to put additional documents, additional points of view, and  additional documents  to support my claim. Analyzing is  helpful to get the reader on your side of your  opinion giving in reasoning of why you feel the way you do. In my DBQ essay of change over time about women I learned to SOAPSTONE the documents which it stands for subject, occasion, audience, purpose,  and tone. Using the documents and anaylzing them I was able to give examples of how womens roles changed over the time of years, also how they now had a role a society and slowly gaining some political rights. I learned that there is always one two sides to each story of a document some can turnout to be good and others bad. So must give your opinion and  and give good reasoning support it. When a writer is objective it only states what he thinks is the best way to move the reader onto his side. You can often tell by the diction and tone the writer uses. To write a good essay its not just simply copying down what the writer wrote but you beeing able to rewrite it in your own words and analyzing it to show that you do understand what he or she is trying to say. To make your essay better you can include arguments intoyour essay from knowledge you have collected. I began to look at the things from a critical point of view, I ask myself questions like " why is the speaker saying that" or why are they favoring something?