Slant With Sex
...still found it to be difficult. The only part that I enjoyed was that we got to choose what type of article we wanted to do. In my mind I thought it would be easy to just go out and find an article, however, I was wrong. I read maybe 6 or 7 articles and not one that I found had enough slant or bias in it for me to try and write a 6 page paper. After hearing one of the articles that we read in class it gave me an idea of a topic that I had heard of last year. I knew it was on either "Dateline" or "60 Minute's" so I went searching. I really liked my article because I had my own opinion on the subject so I found it was interesting to see some one else's point of view.
One part of the essay that I found to be extremely hard was to try and leave the article out and write mostly about language. This time the peer editing ground helped because I noticed how much of the article I was using, and also of the amount of topic sentences that I had that had nothing to do with language in and of itself. However, now after revising I believe what I have about the article is necessary in describing language. I used a lot of quotes for my article to describe exactly what I was trying to come across.
This essay was more complicated then I had originally thought. I really had to know what I was talking about in the essay so that the reader didn't get lost into what I was trying to explain. I tried to include all of the definitions to give the reader more info into my paper and I also tried to use my own examples to break down some of the more complicated definitions. Finding the charged words and all of the slant and bias was hard. I didn't expect to read my article over and over again as much as I did. The only parts that I really am unsure of are some of my own opinions of what some sentences are. For example, when I talked about fallacies I wasn't exactly sure if they...
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