Chapter 5 Exercise 1

Charlip uses several different tools to distinguish her thoughts from those of others. She blatantly labels was they say when she says "Marx and Engels wrote:" and "his definition:". With this she leaves you no doubt that these are other people's ideas and not her own. She goes on to start stating her own opinion and shows her disagreement when she says "if only that were true". Charlip almost has a bit of disbelieving or frustrating tone in her writing when she is stating someone else's opinion. For example when she says "I'm sure thats what my father would tell you." She seems very bothered by the fact that people are not aware of our changing society and the blurry class lines, and I feel this is subtly shown through her writing. 

Chapter 4 Exercise 1

After reading the article I came to the conclusion that she was disagreeing with arguments of the other authors. I feel she believes they do not hold as much credit as they could because the student work/ social class scenario has not been studied in the US yet. It seems like maybe, if it had there is a chance she would agree with the authors, however at this point since it has not she feels their points do not hold much value. The theory seems to hold potential for being true, it just needs to be investigated in the US.

Exercise 7J

Cassidy Trom's writing most resembles an article in a newspaper or a magazine to me. What stood out to me was the way she had pictures placed within the text, and some larger quotes placed in as well. I have seen articles in magazines formated this way, so naturally when reading this piece I would not take it very seriously or really think about it as I was reading. 

I think removing the pictures and reformatted it with out the large quotes would really make the paper more like a research paper. Honestly, I would never have thought this was a research paper because it seemed more like a human interest column article. It would defiantly be more professional and appropriate if the images were taken out and the text was not split into two columns.