Websites

This week, we were instructed to review the Mission Critical and Causal Argument websites and discuss the usefulness of them. Each website provided text-full, informational pages with exercises to review the material. For me personally, I think the websites could use a little editing. On the Mission Critical website, each page provided plenty information on that subject, but the pages were sometimes hard to read due to the amount of text and that some of the text went outside the designated area. However, most of the pages gave great examples and I found it very convenient to have the exercises on the same page as the text, so I could always scroll up and review if I was unclear on a question. For example, on the page discussing Loaded Questions and Complex Claims, the text was interesting to read ("Sometimes, answering a loaded question with another loaded question is the best reply") and right below was the exercises. On the website about Causal Argument, there was a lot of reading of text and on some parts I got lost. But jut like the other website, the text included great examples that help me connect to what is being explained. For example, using and analyzing the argument regarding who is to blame for a car accident which included a illegally parked car, a bicyclist, an incoming car, and the car who failed to break. By using this example, I was able to follow the lesson easier because I was applying it to real life. However, the exercises where on a separate page, which made it hard to review before answering a question if I wanted to.