Saturday, August 6, 2011
Group Discussion
For my group discussion i got together my 2 roommates, one of their girlfriends and a friend that lives close by us. I showed them my first paper i wrote which was about 5 dieting myths. I wrote that i agreed that not all ways of dieting are perfect. 3 of the four people i discussed with. One of my roommates disagreed with me and said that the myths are true, even though i had facts to show him that isn't nessicarily true. He didn't care though, he was set in his way. The discussion was more of an argument that was 3 on one so that was kind of funny. He didn't have any solid facts to back up his claims while i had evidence from the website we wrote our paper on. It was a nice way to see what other people thought and see it from a perspective of people who have not taken this class.
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Sounds like you had a very heated discussion. But I think that feedback, no matter how critical or biased it is, can be helpful. I feel like that having been in this class, we have so many more tools on our side when we get into these kind of arguments that can help us strengthen our point. Like you said, because you were able to gather evidence from different websites and use that in your paper, that made your argument with your friend that much stronger and more valid. But especially when talking about something that is talked about so much, like dieting and the truths and myths behind that, you need a lot of evidence to try and get your point across.
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