The report titled “Muslim Americans: Middle Class and Mostly Mainstream” was very informative. I was taken aback with the results that “The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press” obtained from the random survey that they conducted with Muslim Americans regarding their outlooks, values and attitudes.
Our text book states that “Typically, informative writing is valuable to the extent that it brings something needed, new, or surprising to the audience and therefore enlarges their view of the topic.” Prior to reading this report, I think that I probably would have expected a much different outcome from the survey. To learn that most Muslim Americans feel the same as “traditional Americans” about living life in America, opportunities available to them and that most reject Islamic extremists, gave me a new view on this subject. It also made the information interesting, since it was not what I anticipated.
The report thoroughly explained how the data for the survey was gathered. The key findings were easy to understand, as they were well written and clearly laid out in a bulleted format. The charts that were included in the essay did a very good job of backing up the data that was presented in the text.
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