Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Cause and Effect Website
The cause and effect website reading and exercises was useful for me because it helped me to really understand how cause and effect works in real life situations. By taking an example most everyone can relate to, because it is pretty safe to say that everyone has either ridden a bike, driven or at least rode in a car and seen or have been in an accident themselves. It is easy to come up with our own personal opinion on why the accident happened and what or who caused it, but to stop and think about the similarities between the different people involves reasoning is not something I do often. However, no I think I might start more often, because I think it can be a helpful way of forming a good argument by listening to what someone else is saying first. By listening to the other persons argument you may be able to pick up on something that you didn’t observe or a fact that you missed.
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Hello DeeAnn. I like how you begin by telling us what exactly what you thought was useful about this website. The website helped me too understand how the cause and effect concept works in everyday life. I agree that the example given was very relatable. This post was very clear and easy to understand. You break down the concept in a way that might make people think more about their arguments. I agree that by listening to other sides of a story and other people’s arguments, you can improve your own argument or pick up details that you did not see before.
ReplyDeletei like how you explained how we could all relate to the example. And yes, I too believe that having it relate to us made it easier to understand. If we all have a connection to the problem, we will understand it more. I think it was good that the website did that because it allowed for us to understand the concept. I thought the website did a good job with the examples and the exercises and actually taught us something. There are a lot of websites out there that can just throw us a lot of information, but it does not mean we will understand it. This website, however, allows us to learn from it.
ReplyDeleteI agree with hesamanduh, i really liked the way you explained how we can all relate to the examples.I personally found this very reading very usefull and im pretty sure that many others did as well from the looks of many peoples posts. I think that all of the readings this week were very helpful, and will most likley be on our final, so all of these exercises will be good preperation for all of us. Well good job with your blog, I look forward to reading more of your blogs :) I hope you have a nice and relaxing weekend.
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