Curious Researcher #1

Exercise 1-
You can't use the pronoun I:
I find this statement to be false. In order to effectively write, don't you have to integrate your own opinion in order to make it your own writing rather than just something copied from another source? I find the answer to that question to be a resounding YES. We need to show the readers the way that we feel about the topic at hand and they need to know that it is the writers opinion not someone else's opinion. This idea comes from the fact that through reading different sections of They Say, I Say, I see evidence that while writing, it is important to show one's own ideas! I remember a section that talked about when professors prefer when students don't use "I", and it just seems silly. "I" makes so much sense because it is your very own opinion and you need it in order to make the paper your own. It just wouldn't make sense to use any other word if "I" is actually what you intend to say
Exercise 2-
There is a big difference between facts and opinions:
I agree with this statement. While there are many people who believe that their opinions are fact, there is an obvious difference, especially for someone arguing the opposite view. When preparing for essay two, we went through and determined which are facts and which are claims and there is a distinct difference between the two. If the topic of conversation were abortion, a fact would be that there are 1.2 million abortions a year. My opinion would be that it is extremely wrong and it should not be done because I value life. Someone else's opinion could be that a woman has complete choice over what they do with their body so it is their choice whether to have a baby or not. I personally believe that it is usually easy to identify what is fact and what is opinion by seeing the tone in which the author speaks. It is easy to determine that being pro-life is an opinion rather than a fact and the number of abortions a year is a fact rather than opinion.