"Is the Earth Round or Flat?"

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1.- I would say yes. In the beginning it tells me what I'm going to read or what to expect in the essay. It has good connections and interpretations.

2.- Because he wants to tell the people that he has knowledge about this subject and that he is able to write about different scientist because he knows about this area because he is a scientist. He has to tell the audience that he is one because he writes about a subject that can be missunderstud or not taken seriously. In order for him to make people knoe he is serious he has to tell that he is a science so the audience will have more interest in about reading this essay.

3.- Paragraph 6: "For at least 600 years educated people have believed the earth is round". He is being lighthearted because there is no need to say "educated people", he could just say people in general. For me it is not a good way to do a reference.
In paragraph 5, he talks about Aritotle's proof. That makes him a little bit more serious because he is talking about somebody important and him being a scientist makes people think that he knows what he is talking about.