This website definitely furthered my understanding of causal arguments. It goes into a lot of detail on what it is and provides examples of it being played out. I specifically really liked the exercises that were provided after reading about cause/effect. It was easy to understand. Can I say it was a lot easier to understand the textbook? Because I felt that the book was being a bit too casual with the subject. It’s nice that the textbook wants to connect with us as its readers, but only giving the minimal in formation isn’t helpful at all. It would be surprising if I could fully understand the concept on the first reading. In reality, it takes me at least two times of reading through the book PLUS getting information from another source to help me understand the given concept.
The website, on the other hand, gave more explanation and made it easy to understand. It only took me one time to read through to understand. Even though it wasn’t really being casual with its approach, the main point is that I could understand the concept. Totally recommend this website to use! :)
Hello Cvgotsoul!
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you! I found the website more helpful than reading through all the pages about Cause and Effect from the textbook and attempting to do all the exercises. I mean both have good concepts and ideas but who would want to read more and lengthy descriptions when another source provides a clearer and less lengthy explanation. Also, you're right I guess the book might try to aim more towards the reader's perspective. And I totally agree with you that I need to read it more than once before I'm able to understand what the text was actually saying to me. Awesome post!
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