Syllabus

Showing posts with label "because" statements. Show all posts
Showing posts with label "because" statements. Show all posts

Friday, May 5, 2017

for Cynthia


  1. that you agree with the other 10 sources and a few reasons why came to that conclusion with them. ideally, you'd want to show that, while all 11 of you came to the same conclusion, that you came to the same conclusion slightly differently 
  2. how there isn't consensus in the field on this issue. here, i'll want to get a sense of your stance on the issue is (the 11 of you) and how it differs from other stances
  3. here you'll want to make a gesture to try and understand why someone else would think that position, or why it would be publicly persuasive, why others would agree with them, plus a few reasons why people would do this. but then at the end of the day, you'd want to conclude again with a reason why it really makes sense for the answer to be your answer for this reason, or maybe because of a contextual difference 

Friday, April 28, 2017

whatever individuates your research


  • whatever individuates your research
  • i mean, people have talked about this before, so it's not like it's totally new or unprecedented, but no one's talked about it in exactly this way, or, while there's this thing that's been going on in the background of lots of research, no one has had a reason to bring it to the forefront of a research program, but i do 
  • so, for example, while i realize that scholars have talked about how pollution impacts children's respiratory health, they've background that relationship for this reason ("because"); but, because i'm coming at it from this angle, i have this reason to talk about it explicitly in the foreground and here's why ("because)