By K. Tran “Grab their attention with something snappy or cute.” Is that really it for an intro? According to, The Craft Of Research, there is so much more to do in an introduction if your essay. In order to reel in your audience, you would need a “contextualizing background”, “statement of the problem”, and a “response to …
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By K. Tran What’s the difference between one’s reason and one’s evidence? Consider a snippet of a discussion from The Craft of Research, Fourth Edition, between a mother and child: Child: I need new sneakers. Look. These are too small. Parent: Your feet haven’t grown that much in a month, and they don’t seem to …
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By K. Tran We typically think our favorite athletes are our heroes when they display our country’s great strength during the Super Bowl or Olympics. But we often don’t see beyond this surface as they entertain us. Yusra Mardini, an eighteen-year-old Olympian Syrian swimmer, risked her amazing life to save other refugees as they were …
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In the book, They Say/I Say, authors Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein propose that students should refer to templates when writing. To some degree, I agree that it would help. However, I would imagine the students becoming more preoccupied in inserting words and phrases that could fit in the blank space rather than understanding why …
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