TSIS: Pg. 72-73 #2

My responce to Gladwell's exceprt:

1. How Many perspectives do you engage in?
I used one other perspective which was Gladwell's.

2. What other perspectives might you include?
I do not believe that I could use any other perspectives since I was writing an essay in which I was responding and using examples of Gladwells.

3. How might you distinguish your ideas from the other views you summarize?
A person could simply use first person, quotations, a summary, an introduction of the person they are summarizing before hand, use their name..

4. Do you use clear phrases?
I believe that I do.

5. What options are available to you to clarify who is saying what?
I could use the name of the individual who's idea i am summarizing or quoting, if it is myself, I could use 'I'.

6. Which if these options are best suited for this particular text?
I believe that within my own writing either of the options I expressed above would be appropriate.

Gladwell's essay:

1. How Many perspectives do you engage in?
Gladwell uses about 10-15 perspectives other than his own within his writing.

2. What other perspectives might you include?
I believe that he could have used the perspective of those people against his idea of a tipping point and used some examples from those people, because his whole excerpt is about how the tipping point is true and a bunch of examples that back up his theory, but I'm sure that somewhere there are people who feel differently from him.

3. How might you distinguish your ideas from the other views you summarize?
A person could simply use first person, quotations, a summary, an introduction of the person they are summarizing before hand, use their name..

4. Do you use clear phrases?
Yes, I think that Gladwell expresses who's perspective he is using quite clearly.

5. What options are available to you to clarify who is saying what?
He could use the name of the individual who's idea he is summarizing or quoting, he could also use 'I' when referring to his own idea.

6. Which if these options are best suited for this particular text?
I believe that he could use in h is writing a variety of first person and of summarizing other people and just including the name of person who's idea it was originally either before or after the text. Since the text is very scholarly, he should try to stray away from too many quotations, but he should still use a variety of them, because other wise the readers will get bored and uninterested with reading the same words over and over.