“Finding Evidence” by Andrea A. Lunsford talks about how being persuasive requires evidence to support the argument. The author also gives examples of where to find credible sources. She explains that most academic evidence comes from libraries, databases, and online and the more evidence you can obtain, the stronger the paper. She also gives tip on how to find credible sources online. Instead of just taking information from any website, she explains how these websites should be found through advanced search techniques, library databases targeted to the subject, and to ask librarians and instructors for help. In order to gather information on your own, she tells us to perform experiments, makes observations, conduct interviews, use questionnaires to conduct surveys, and draw upon personal experience. This is helpful for me because I always find it hard to find credible sources, especially for a topic that doesnt, have much research done on them.
In “Under My Thumb” by Chelsea Booth, I absolutely love how she started with a conversation she had with a boy. This already showed the reader what the paper was going to be about. It was very engaging and very relatable as a woman. She talks about how women are not acknowledged as much as men are. She uses the example of education to support her argument. She explains how in the music curriculum at school, they barely talk about women musicians and only talk about men musicians. This is very interesting because although in school, men are always the ones being talked about, I never really thought about it until I read this paper. I realized how unfair it was and still is for women.