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1- Intro

Summary
The scholarly pieces provide unique perspective on a research gap while the
Huffington Post article focuses more heavily on the presentation of the
information than it does on the content. All of these different moves play a
huge role in the effectiveness of the rhetoric.
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This paragraph introduces the article titled, Does Hugging
Provide Stress-Buffering Social Support? A Study of Susceptibility to Upper
Respiratory Infection and Illness.
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The author of the article uses the clarifying phrases move
in order to make his article a little bit more accessible. This
made me as the reader feel better about reading the
information.
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Introduces second scholarly piece from a sociological
perspective and attempting to analyze its target audience.
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Hugs are different for people of different cultures and may
not be appropriate in certain circumstances. Teachers in the
study say they want to treat all students equally but the way
they go about it is by acting colorblind. This isnt right.
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This article discusses English language Learners as the victims of
colorblindness but failed to make an article that might appeal to the people it
is about. I dont believe that the authors of this article matched their writing
style with an understanding of the contextual background of the people that
his article might be very important to.
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The article uses really complex language that isnt accessible
to a broad audience.
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Writing this article in a more accessible mainstream article
might better get the message of it across to the people that
it is relevant to.
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Discusses the conventions of the Huffington Post piece and
how it appeals to a large population of readers.
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Mainstream media often sources the information they put
into their articles from scholarly pieces and attempt to
present the info in for concise and easy-to-understand way.
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Context is key in deciding what kind of piece you want to
write.
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Closing with the idea that no move is necessarily a bad move but in
certain contexts it is important to consider which move you as the writer
would like to use.
How did this reverse outline help?
This reverse outline made me realize just how true of a mess this
frickin paper is. Looking at it piece by piece I realized that there was a lot I
needed to cut out and a lot I needed to add. Being the one that wrote it I was

able to recognize what I actually wanted my argument to be and readjusting

my thesis was the best feeling ever. Its so important for the reader but also
for the writer to have a clear thesis so that the paper can flow from the
thesis and actually make some sense. Structurally I cut out a few paragraphs
that were irrelevant to my newly stated argument. I also added more context
for the psychological scholarly piece. Summarizing each paragraph
individually made me find better places for paragraph breaks instead. I think
I was so afraid of the page-long paragraph this time that I hit enter too many
times. I really feel like this process helped me create a better paper that is
more clear than its previous form.