Questions on Meaning
1. What do you take to be Ariely's reason for writing the essay? Is he merely reporting the results of his research or does he have another PURPOSE in mind?
Ariely's reason for writing this essay is to give an idea of how dishonesty the society is and to give a general idea on how people cheat in many circumstances. Yes, Ariely is just merely reporting the results of his research but he also has a purpose in his mind, that is to motivate students on not to lie in a given task at the University of California.
3. Under what circumstances are people more likely to lie? List at least three of the factors Ariely cites.
Ariely mentions that people tend to lie when they want glory and money, they want to view themselves as honorable or honest people, they notice mentally difficult tasks, and think that cheating would benefit the teammates in a group version.
5. What is Ariely's THESIS? Does he state it anywhere or is it implied?
Ariely's thesis is stated. Ariely uses the "Matrix" task using different variation to find out how many people (especially college students) cheat or lie on their tests or any given task and the reasons why people cheat on them. Questions on Writing strategy 1. …show more content…
For whom does Ariely seem to be writing? Cheaters and Liars, their victims, other researchers, insurance, administration, bankers, the IRS, his study participants, another group? How can you tell?
Ariely seems to be writing the essay for the victims of cheater's. The author makes use of negative connotation to show that people started to lie which resulted in the loss of "hundred dollars to the big cheaters", on the other hand, he used the words "we lost thousands and thousands of dollars to them" show that Ariely and his colleagues have lost most of the money to cheaters who cheated "just a little" because there were many of them. (Ariely)
2. The BODY of "Why we Lie" has three fairly distinct sections-paragraph 4-9, 10-14, and 15-21. What is the focus of each section? How does Ariely ensure that his essay has UNITY and COHERENCE? The paragraphs 4-9 primarily focus on the basic reasons why people tend to lie or cheat. The paragraphs provide a detailed description of the "matrix" experiment and when the Arisley and his colleagues compared the results of control condition and shredded condition (possibility for subjects to cheat on matrix task), they found out that the shredded condition has twice as many as the control condition, in other words, control condition had solved 4 matrixes while shredded condition solved 6 matrixes. Paragraph 10-14 focuses on the reason why people tend to cheat or lie, it also shows that people tend to cheat when other students are cheating. Paragraph 15-21 conclude the idea that many good people cheat "just by little" during the tasks while few people tried to steal to their maximal. It also proved that the control condition had fewer numbers in most of its task than the others who were brought randomly or by a shredded condition. Ariely ensures his essay to have unity and coherence by making the sentences logical and clear by using redundancy. Ariely also ensures the unity of the essay by using the same format throughout the whole essay, that is asking a question and answering it in his terms. Questions on Language 1. Find examples of COLLOQUIAL EXPRESSION and FIGURES
1. What do you take to be Ariely's reason for writing the essay? Is he merely reporting the results of his research or does he have another PURPOSE in mind?
Ariely's reason for writing this essay is to give an idea of how dishonesty the society is and to give a general idea on how people cheat in many circumstances. Yes, Ariely is just merely reporting the results of his research but he also has a purpose in his mind, that is to motivate students on not to lie in a given task at the University of California.
3. Under what circumstances are people more likely to lie? List at least three of the factors Ariely cites.
Ariely mentions that people tend to lie when they want glory and money, they want to view themselves as honorable or honest people, they notice mentally difficult tasks, and think that cheating would benefit the teammates in a group version.
5. What is Ariely's THESIS? Does he state it anywhere or is it implied?
Ariely's thesis is stated. Ariely uses the "Matrix" task using different variation to find out how many people (especially college students) cheat or lie on their tests or any given task and the reasons why people cheat on them. Questions on Writing strategy 1. …show more content…
For whom does Ariely seem to be writing? Cheaters and Liars, their victims, other researchers, insurance, administration, bankers, the IRS, his study participants, another group? How can you tell?
Ariely seems to be writing the essay for the victims of cheater's. The author makes use of negative connotation to show that people started to lie which resulted in the loss of "hundred dollars to the big cheaters", on the other hand, he used the words "we lost thousands and thousands of dollars to them" show that Ariely and his colleagues have lost most of the money to cheaters who cheated "just a little" because there were many of them. (Ariely)
2. The BODY of "Why we Lie" has three fairly distinct sections-paragraph 4-9, 10-14, and 15-21. What is the focus of each section? How does Ariely ensure that his essay has UNITY and COHERENCE? The paragraphs 4-9 primarily focus on the basic reasons why people tend to lie or cheat. The paragraphs provide a detailed description of the "matrix" experiment and when the Arisley and his colleagues compared the results of control condition and shredded condition (possibility for subjects to cheat on matrix task), they found out that the shredded condition has twice as many as the control condition, in other words, control condition had solved 4 matrixes while shredded condition solved 6 matrixes. Paragraph 10-14 focuses on the reason why people tend to cheat or lie, it also shows that people tend to cheat when other students are cheating. Paragraph 15-21 conclude the idea that many good people cheat "just by little" during the tasks while few people tried to steal to their maximal. It also proved that the control condition had fewer numbers in most of its task than the others who were brought randomly or by a shredded condition. Ariely ensures his essay to have unity and coherence by making the sentences logical and clear by using redundancy. Ariely also ensures the unity of the essay by using the same format throughout the whole essay, that is asking a question and answering it in his terms. Questions on Language 1. Find examples of COLLOQUIAL EXPRESSION and FIGURES