- If I wanted to detect crap, I would first ask the other person why they think so or where they got this info. If their response seems reliable enough, I think it’s ok to trust. I would also think about what kind of benefit the other person might get from lying to me. Then I would also think about their relationship to the topic. Like if they were on a soccer team, I would be more likely to trust their opinion on soccer.
- Checking/googling the publisher of the article/book.
- Maybe five-paragraph essays. Perhaps it isn’t as important to write in such a structure. I could write more loosely and freely.
- Maybe we do not need as much money to be happy. We’ve been contaminated with materialistic capitalist ideas that you need to buy stuff to make yourself happy. Even if you work a minimum wage job in America you make more than most people on Earth. Or like many people, for example, in India don’t live inside a house, but instead sleep outside and they’re perfectly fine. Before Steve Jobs died, he stated that he wished he worked less and spent more time with his family. We will all die one day and on our deathbeds we will all regret that we didn’t do as much stuff as we really wanted to and instead were caught up in the never-ending money-chasing race. I have no qualifications to speak on this topic. As a rebuttal, we actually do need some money to buy food and stuff.
ENG 2100: Writing 1 with Jay Thompson
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