Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Cause and Effect website

Being able to distinguish from what a cause and a effect is not only imperative in reading however in reality as well. What caused that to happen was because of (the effect).

What I found helpful through the cause and effect website reading and exercises was the discussion on the strengths of a casual argument and the exercises. For example on the three strengths mentioned, I found the most appealing to me was that, "how likely the case for causation seems to be." The example they came up with was "do we think that a bicycle swerving into an car's lane can cause an accident?" This is something that doesn't really cross our mind unless it has happened to us but is good to keep in mind.

I found the exercises to be helpful and useful because they helped show how the cause and effect of something are two different things but when they are in sync with each other, they put help piece two things together to equal the main event.
So the examples were based off of people at a company picnic and how the people who ate the potato salad and became sick from it andit looked at different cases if what could have caused it and how the difference in the individuals could have made a difference or not. I found that helful and interesting.

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