When writing an essay on an huge issue, identifying the main questions and forming them will allow you to incorporate the most important parts of your essay. A few questions you will probably come across are "what are the concerns of the authors I've been reading? What is my argument in response to their writing? What kinds of evidence will persuade my readers?" (pg. 73) just to name a few. When you want to answer those questions to their fullest potential, you should consider these answers: "identifying an issue, understanding the situation, and formulating a question"(pg. 73) Not only is identifying the main issue in your argument important, but providing a personal experience can strengthen your writing. Including a personal experience can "argue a point, to illustrate something, or to illuminate a connection between theories and the sense we make of our daily experience."( pg. 75) Your goal is not to tell your story, but enhance and strengthen your side of the argument. The main point that I learned from this article was the idea of academic writing and how you want to base your writing off of theirs. Your main goal in enhancing your academic writing is building "on and extends the ideas of others." (pg. 77) and you will learn and realize by "extending other people's ideas, you will extend your own." (pg 77). With each point that I read about, there were different along with successful ideas to strengthen your argument. Along the way you may run into some issues, but following these six steps will ensure your identify and fix your mistakes. Those steps include: draw on your personal experience, identify what is open to dispute, resist binary thinking, build on and extend the ideas of others, read to discover a writer's frame, and consider the constraints of the situation.These steps can help ensure you are writing and hitting these key steps to have the most successful essay one can write. A few other steps were brought out in the argument which allows you to create formulating an issue based question. These questions provide a step by step to create your own issue based question.
Questions:
1. What is binary thinking and how do you understand if you're experiencing it?
2. How often and will we learn how to use the steps to formulating an issue- based question?
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