College Composition / Unit 22 CMP 0531 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Purpose and Point of View
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The idea
Every source has a perspective: its author's purpose, assumptions, evidence, biases and reasoning.
In practice
Ask who created the source and for what reason; an author's stated viewpoint may itself need checking, since the author wrote it.
Where people slip
Perspective becomes easier to see after reading several sources, as their differences emerge.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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