Week 14 Rules for Writers

I chose to give an overview of the chapters I found extremely helpful throughout the course in Diana Hackers, Rules for Writers book. The chapters I found most helpful were the ones dealing with writing research papers. The book gave specific guidelines and examples to help me through the research and arguing to construct an organized paper.
One of the areas in the book was Chapter 46 on constructing arguments which advises on how to construct a paper including the arguments. The chapter gives suggestions on how to backup the argument with facts and expert opinions with examples of papers which was extremely helpful to me because then I could see how the suggestions were used.
Chapter 47 I learned how to evaluate arguments and tactics writers use to argue their points. I think being able to see writers evaluate each other’s arguments and suggestions on avoiding pitfalls helped me to improve in these areas, especially because it offered specific arguments so that I could determine the problems of the arguments.
Chapter 48 was also helpful on conducting research, by helping you pick a topic and determine a research strategy. The book shows traditional and non-traditional sources of information, as well as suggestions on how to narrow a search when looking on the internet to write your paper.
The chapter I found the most valuable was chapter 49 evaluating sources, it gave specific guidelines on determining how valuable information is for my topic and how realiable the information is to my topic by giving a checklist to help me through writing my paper.
All these chapters gave specific information to easily and clearly help me from picking my topic, developing my arguments to researching the topic and being able to backup the topic with reliable sources. I will hang on to this book for future use.