Wednesday, September 17, 2008

On this weeks readings

I enjoyed reading chapters 4 and 5 from Heinrichs "Thank You for Arguing". I love the way he relates the different techniches of arguing to everyday situations or alludes to parts of pop culture for example the Clavin and Hobbs comic, and his description of a scene from 8 mile. It made it easier to understand what he was saying about the different kinds of arguments and what they appeal to.
I didn't really like the way the information was presented in "Educated, Experienced, and Out of Work". There was a bunch of statistics, which made it kind of difficult to understand. It was a bit shocking that we have failed to recover from our last period of increased long term unemployment. It worries me that it is so difficult for graduates from 4 year colleges find jobs.

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