Chaper 7 They Say I Say

Chapter seven of They Say I Say gave me a couple exceptionally good tips when writing or speaking to a specific audience. The main point of this chapter was telling the writer to ask why it matters. Many people write a paper or give a speech without telling their audience why they should care about the subject. If one fails to tell why their subject matters or who cares about it, the audience may become uninterested because they start to not care themselves. Establishing why a subject is important can be as simple as saying, “blank is important because blank.” One could also dedicate a full paragraph to explaining why something is important, depending on what the subject is.
This chapter without doubt helped me with my writing. Although with some papers, establishing why something is important is completely insignificant and will not help an argument at all, it is often needed in some papers. When writing previous to this I have simply stated the facts and built an argument, but I rarely state who cares or why it’s important. I feel as though this aspect of writing is often overlooked by many writers, teachers, and even professional writers. I believe including this in my research papers from here on out will drastically improve my arguments.