G/B Chapter Seven: So What? Who Cares?

Saying Why It Matters English 1010: November 10, 2011 According to Graff and Birkenstein: (If you need more room, write on the back.) 1. Why is it important to answer the questions of So what? and Who cares? in a text?

2. What does asking Who cares? focus on? What does answering So what? focus on?

3. How does Denise Gradys, The Secret Life of a Potent Cell, answer Who cares?

4. How does Denise Gradys, The Secret Life of a Potent Cell, answer So What? Provide both the partial and the global answer here.

5. How does Tom Friedman answer the question So what? at the end of his essay, The World Is Flat? (See pages 438-440). Give examples.

6. How far should you go as a writer in answering these two questions? What about the audience who is already informed? How should you respond to them?

7. How does Bob Herbert explain why it matters that America has lost its way in his essay, A Fire in the Basement? (See from bottom of page 398 through page 403.)

8. Write a template for Who cares? Use this template in your issue paper.

9. Write a template for So what? Use this template in your issue paper.