Problem
Read "Why Women Still Cant Have It All" and "Why Men Still Can't Have it All".
a) What assumption or position do you think that the author is responding to in the essay "Why Women Still Can't Have It All"? What markers or signals help you identify this position?
b) In the essay "Why Men Still Can't Have It All," how does the writer set the essay up as an argument that looks beyond the pros and cons that everyone has already heard before?
c) What strategies do you see the two authors using to connect their ideas and the ideas of others? Select one specific paragraph from each essay, and identify the connecting devices. What are the: transitions? key terms? pointing