Finding Evidence:
This article makes the claim that finding good evidence for a research project isn’t as simple as one would think. It asks the reader to consider the rhetorical situation and states how the best evidence will usually match the time and place of which you make your argument. The authors also state the importance of what evidence is best for what rhetorical situation. The article then goes into detail about how to use data and evidence from research sources and how the type of research a writer requires can change the credibility of a source. In the end, this article informs the reader about the various ways that they can collect their own data, whether it be performing experiments, conducting interviews, or more.
Under My Thumb:
Opening up with dialogue describing when the narrator lied in eighth grade to fit in, this writing tells the author’s personal experiences in her life and its effect on her. She focuses on the hardships that she faced being in the music industry and describes how for most women like her it was the same. She goes into detail about a time when she was sexually harassed during one of her concerts and how she felt shocked and disgusted. She even put in bold text “I didn’t care if he liked me; I just wanted to be treated as an equal” which was essentially her main point in that paragraph. She then followed this by using various evidence to build up her case that women harassment in the workplace was a common thing that occurred and she wasn’t the only one. In her conclusion, she even goes on to say that even she feels is part of this problem because she never used to speak against it and urges others to not be like that.