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The Assignment that I chose is about the drilling in Alaska. It is entitled “When Will We Realize That We Can’t Drill Our Way To Cheap Gas?” It takes the stand against drilling in Alaska and uses many forms of rhetoric to argue its point. It talks about the history of Alaska and how this isn’t a quick fix solution to our problems.
I chose this article because it caught my attention. It is something that is a hot topic right now with the price of gas so high. It interested me and I wanted to see the opposite viewpoint. I disagree with this article so it makes me look for mistakes and other errors that much harder. It is a well written article that uses emotion and logic to try and persuade the reader that drilling in Alaska will not help the American Economy.
This article was also the best article that I found during my search. Other articles were just too long or too short or they were just informative and didn’t try to persuade the reader in any way. This article has a nice balance and takes a stand on a certain topic; that of the arctic drilling. It is an article that is fun to read and is fun to look at the reasoning that the writer uses. I disagree with him so it is easy to see and pick out the flaws.
I found this article on the internet using google search. I just searched “Alaska and drilling” and this came up. It wasn’t the first article I found, nor the last, but it was the best one that I found.
The library instruction was a little bit helpful, but I thought it was all unnecessary. Maybe a little instruction would be good, but it was just way too much. Doing the tutorial online wasn’t all that great at first, and then going to the library to get the same instruction is just overkill. It helped a little, but it went a little too far and I lost interest and started to go to espn.com to look up the sports news because I had already done the stuff she went over in the online tutorial.