Chapter 14

Reading chapter 14 doesn't present a whole lot of new information in my opinion. I feel like a lot of papers that I have written in school are arguments, including the one that we are writing right now. In most papers, I am required to make a claim and back it with evidence. This chapter does address some different ways of supporting your argument, which is useful. Examples, factual data, and testimonials are just a few of the ways that the author says you can support your argument in a paper. They also introduced the STAR criteria for evaluating the evidence that you use. This is useful in determining whether or not the evidence that you have is going to be effective in your paper. They also make sure that there is an appeal to ethos and pathos in the paper which is an important point. Overall, I learned a few things from the chapter.