1. October 10, 2013

2. Tonight’s Agenda
 Point of View
 Hard and Soft Evidence (p. 84)
 Fact versus Opinion
 Beyond Words, Chapters 3
 Homework: Annotated Bibliography

4. Point of View
Singular
 1.
 2.
 3.
I me
you
he she him her
it this that
Plural
 1.
 2.
 3.
We us
you
they them these those

5. Point of View
 First Person

6. Point of View
 Second Person

7. Point of View
 Third Person

8. Point of View
 Stick to third-person point of view as much as
possible.
 If you have to refer to yourself for a valid reason, use
“I.” Do not refer to yourself as “this writer,” “this
author,” or “this researcher.”
 Valid reasons include describing the steps you took in
conducting and experiment or using a personal
anecdote to help support a point.

9. Hard and Soft Evidence
 Facts and statistics – hard evidence
 Examples and illustrations – soft evidence
 Expert opinion – soft evidence

10. Fact versus Opinion
 Facts are objective
 Opinions are subjective
 Objective means that something is provable,
verifiable, and true.
 Subjective means that something cannot be proven
one way or the other, is not verifiable, and is therefore
opinion.

11. Research Report versus Paper
 A research report is filled with facts and does not argue
anything or advocate one position or the other.
 A research paper takes a position; however, it builds a
case with hard evidence and facts.
 The more hard evidence and facts, the stronger the
paper. The more soft evidence and opinion, the
weaker the paper.

12. Projects
 Project 2.1
 Project 3.1
 Project 3.2
 Project 3.3
 Project 3.4
 Project 3.5
p. 106
p. 185
p. 189
p. 195
p. 195
p. 195

13. Projects

14. Annotated Bibliography