Dodson's Afterword: Response

Dodson’s Afterword, I think is very similar to what we are being asked to create for our own essays. Dodson kicks off with a summary of sorts of his book’s theme, themes. He kind of goes through his novel, bringing up his discoveries in shorter contexts as he weaves together his conclusion. Dodson brings up the points he found most valuable and what he thinks we should take out of his piece. He brings up his personal opinion on what he think China’s biggest accomplishment was. He also brings up an idea and then contrasts it with another he discovered in his research. In our conclusions, I think we are required to do the same. We have to summarize our key points, our layers to our topic. We also have to bring in our personal thoughts and opinions on what we have encountered and what it has led us to conclude about our topic. His ends with a cliff-hanger of sorts, saying how we don’t know everything and there is so much more to learn, but we aren’t required to do that because our point is to present what we’ve learned and gained through this research not tell our readers that we necessarily need more information.