People are blogging about cherry-picking this week. I haven’t researched yet, but I know what it is from Mr. Lord’s interview. In fact, I was thinking something like it Wednesday night when I was typing Part 3. As I went through a list of statistics, I knew I wanted the ones that supported what I wanted to say. Most of them did, so I wasn’t too worried. But some of them did go against my opinion. I decided to include those in a small paragraph, because I remember Wendy talking about presenting both sides evenly.
It makes me think though; do I need to represent both evenly, or just focus on mine? It is an opinion paper, so I thought my opinion would be prevalent. If I do need to focus on both sides, wouldn’t my opinion be masked by the opposing side’s? People might not know what I’m arguing about if I don’t write it clearly enough.
But I guess that’s just it; I need to write it so that people don’t get confused. It’s hard to be forward about your own side when you have to be fair with presenting the other side too though.
I guess that’s going to be Tuesday’s lesson. I really want to get this worked out so I can do Part 4 right. I don’t want to have to rewrite anymore of that paper!
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