Infusing Your Opinion

Infusing Your Own Opinion

Directions: Read the model paragraphs from “The Owners Who Run Teams for the Money” by Bruce Schoenfeld and highlight words and phrases that reveal the author’s opinion. Then, answer the questions.

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Highlight words or phrases that reveal the author's opinions

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What technique does the writer use to reveal their opinion? (Look at word choice, literary devices, or structure)

Make sure to elaborate!

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How do the writer's opinions relate to the rest of the paragraph?

Make sure to elaborate!

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How does infusing his opinion strengthen his writing?

Make sure to elaborate!

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Infusing Your Opinion

Writers may choose to infuse their opinion in their work in order to:

• develop a particular tone

• engage their audience

Strategies to infuse your opinion into your writing: 

• include personal pronouns (e.g. “That seemed like a lot of money to me…”)

• use descriptive or figurative language (e.g. “...the Lions were a toy.”)

• incorporate qualifiers that reveal your opinion (e.g. “...an investment that nobody would confuse with a New York-based NFL team…”)

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Refer back to the model paragraph. Which strategy for infusing your opinion do you find the most effective? Why?

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Add 3 - 4 opinions you have about your research topic.