The analytical review of the tattoo article in chapter 6 was interesting. It was funny to see the student’s point of view an how the tattoo is more of a commercial fad than the author thought.

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I find, when reading AB, I am at the end of the chapter before I realize it. This is one text book I don’t mind reading. I will absolutely utilize the suggestions for research and source evaluation throughout my paper writing.

It was interesting to see the suprise reversal technique being used to enlighten the reader on some of the topics. The article by Eugene Robinson about racial profiling was a bit of a disappointment though.
First of all, it was not surprising at all. It was very clear from the start what direction the paper was going to take. I didn’t find the statistics surprising either, just incomplete.
He talks about the statistics and gives figures, but does not cast them in a full light. Were the officers pulling people over all white? What percentage were non-white? Where does this take place? It starts off with “Washington – this just in”, is that where we are to assume this is happening? Its not clear.
If those statistics were happening in Utah, I would agree that there is racial profiling going on. If this was Watts, CA or Detroit, I would wonder why so many white people were being pulled over.

I thought that this part on thinking critically was good. I did enjoy reading the writing by Kerri Ann Matsumoto about organic verses traditional. I did think that Cheryl’s view was very interesting and in lighting. However, I felt she was a little harsh in her feelings to the officers of detention facility.

FINALLY THIS IS WORKING!

I have also had a hard time, I enjoyed the example papers on pages 232-234, it help releive some of my stress about writing a paper.

I appreciated how diverse the resources can be. It is fascinating to see all of the different ways that there are to get source material. It is nice to have the direction and resource to narrow the topic or vice versa for the subject. When we were assigned to write the report of how we would right a research paper, I found that most of what I had written was very similar to what I found in the reading. The steps were almost identical, one of the steps in the book that stood out to me was evaluating the resources.

I found that the article about the hydrogen powered cars to be an interesting article. I didn’t realize that htere are only a few methods of producing Hydrogen. A question that I thought of thogh is how can using hydrogen powered cars cut down on global warming if the only ways to produce the hydrogen gas still require the buring of fossil fuels. So how can hydorgen powered cars be anymore beneficial to the environment than gasoline powered cars, when it still takes the same technology to produce hydrogen that is currently in use to produce gasoline and electricity?

The readings on pages 230-238 were good examples on the surprising-reversal strategy for writing research papers. I particularly liked the paper by Shannon King about hydrogen fuel-cell cars.