1). What was useful about the Cause and Effect website reading and exercises?
The Cause and Effect website helped me further understand what Cause and Effect really was. Based on the reading from the Epstein textbook I knew basic information regarding Cause and Effect. Yet, the website discusses Causal Arguments which was very confusing at first for me. Also the website links Causal Arguments as Cause and Effect arguments. The exercises they presented was quite helpful in explaining and testing my knowledge of the concept. Additionally, when you click the wrong answer on the question the website would provide you with explanation of the reason why the answer you clicked was incorrect. Also I really liked how they presented a cause and effect within a cause and effect. They describe one possible way for the accident to occur. Then they twisted the idea and gave another perspective on who was to blame and why that accident occur. The book was helpful in explaining the Cause and Effect concept but it was too long. I mean why would anyone want to read more when they could read less and still get the same concepts and ideas from their reading.
Thank you!
Hi EllaComm! :)
ReplyDeleteDefinitely agree with you that the book was too long in explaining such a simple concept. The website was perfect in explaining the concept. It wasn't too fancy, and it wasn't too simplistic. It was perfectly balanced between the two. I don't know about you, but the examples given in the book about causal arguments were extremely vague, yet it's said to be easily to relate to. I didn't feel they helped at all...not like the ones on the website. xP And I couldn't relate to the book at all. It just made the subject really awkward to learn. To tell you the truth, I sorta think of the names of the people used in the book, rather than the actual subject it's discussing. It's really distracting. haha
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ReplyDeleteI agree, the website was helpful to further understand the concept of cause and effect. I thought that Chapter 15 was not as straightforward as the website, and could have been way shorter and simpler than it is. The website discussed the concept with an example and explained it straight to the point. Like you said, people usually would not want to read more when they could read less and get the same concepts from somewhere else. Sometimes when a text is too long, I don’t carefully pay attention to it and it makes me not want to read the rest to fully understand the concept. I also liked the exercises because it corrected our mistakes with a explanation!
Hey ellacom, I liked your post because it showed how you navigated between the reading and website, thus showing me a little bit on how you study an such. I do agree with you though that I was initially confused by the concept in our reading because, although these communication lessons might seem easy at first glance, further investigation and reading quickly shows how they can be tricky when trying to describe specific points made by the text. I felt that the website's example though was good too because it showed the complexities of a situation and how there might be several factors to how one event happened. Thus, it teaches us to be cautious when making statements and learn how to view events through other people's perspectives on top of learning casual arguments.
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