Blog 15

I chose to read chapter seven titled “So What? Who Cares?” from the book They Say/I Say. This chapter discussed the ideas of how to properly include facts and statements that are relevant and important to your overall argument. They addressed these topics by first talking about the significance of mentioning different facts into your writing. I found this section helpful because when I write, I often find that sometimes I just write facts when sometimes they don’t serve a purpose for supporting my argument. For example, when I used a scientific study to support my thesis, I found that I was including other scientific facts that did nothing but increase the word count.  Also, using the templates that they mentioned within the chapter, could help me introduce other sources that I used besides the assigned readings that we had. The “so what” section of the chapter described how it is important to directly describe the significance of the different sources and how it supports your claims and overall thesis. In my paper, I plan to make the connections clearer and linking these ideas back to the argument that I was making. Using what I learned in this chapter and specifically identifying the purpose of introducing different facts and other sources to support the thesis.