Dodson Chapters 6 & 7 Response

In Chapter six, Dodson writes with a variation of styles. He incorporates his own personal stories, along with narratives of others, and statistics. He includes personal opinions as well as researched facts. He does this as he previously has in other chapters. Each chapter typically starts with a small story about what he has experienced in China. The story will relate to what the meat of the chapter is about. In this case, it was about a Chinese town being built called Yantai. . He then breaks his ideas up into sub-sections for the chapter. He will continue on into stats and numbers, as well as researched opinions. He still maintains some ideas of his own, which I think is important to his book. The neat thing about Dodson’s writing is that all of these styles intertwine with one another quite nicely. There is no need for him to break up stories, opinions, and facts into their own categories. He keeps the reader intrigued by weaving them all together to create a really powerful and successful book.

In Chapter seven, Dodson maintains the same writing technique. It isn’t surprising to the reader because he has not truly wavered from this pattern in all the chapters.

He starts this chapter with a story, although it is about someone other than himself. However, it still begins with a storyline to put an image in your head. I find this very useful for the reader. You are introduced with a captivating story that puts vivid images in your head about what is happening in China, related to the chapter’s topic. This way, when the reader is then given a bunch of facts, and researched opinions, you are better able to visualize what exactly they mean. It becomes much more exciting for the reader, and much more effective for the writer to get his point across. In this chapter, Dodson decides to involve more quotes, specifically the one from the China Daily. He uses these quotes, as well as his own, to add a sense of involvement within the chapter’s topic.