Friday, November 4, 2016

Thinking About WP2 Through the SEPTA Strike

During WP2, we're going to be considering people's different disciplinary/professional perspectives and evaluating their arguments/positions.  

Since this SEPTA strike is impacting almost every one of us right now -- and screwing us up pretty badly(!) -- I thought I'd take it as an opportunity to have us think about how different people approach the strike based on their different disciplinary/professional perspectives.

Here are some different texts written by and written about people in multiple careers, with various purposes, and with different claims -- they're all trying to convince us of something.  My questions to YOU (my beloved ENG 101-108 students) include: 

  • what IS that something?  (that they're arguing!)
  • what are they basing in it on?
  • whose argument/positions do you think is the most effective?
  • and, most importantly, why?

Check out these articles that are written by folks from different perspectives and/or include people's diverse perspectives on the same topic/issue.




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