Analysis Of The Invention That Made Us Human Nature By Kevin Dickinson

Kevin Dickinson’s article, "The invention that made us human: fire" guides readers into understanding how fire assisted human evolution.. Dickinson explores the topic of why fire made us human in his article and gives the reader scientific examples that would help expand their knowledge. Dickinson uses rhetorical writing skills to create an idea for the reader of how fire led to what present humans are now compared to our human ancestors. In the article, Dickinson uses scientific evidence that allows the reader to understand where this stands on a scientific level, tone of the article, and uses a variety of other writing strategies. All of those parts add up to put a well-written informative article into perspective that allows the reader to gain the important information of why fire made us human. Dickinson creates an atmosphere and a sense of where the article is going by starting the article off with a fact of where fire has gotten us. “We have replaced the hearth with electric ovens and central heating, but the burning of fossil fuels accounts for 63.5 percent of U.S. electricity generation.”(Dickinson). This allows the reader to create a connection to the article. Dickinson uses this strategy to

This allows reading to gain knowledge and other facts that lead up to Dickinson’s claim. He uses, “From this point, fire becomes a recurrent phenomenon with times of high and low activity based on environmental conditions.” (Dickinson) this type of language and informative writing to give the reader detailed explanations. This gives the reader a more in-depth sight of what Dickinson is informing them on. Furthermore, Dickinson proceeds to use concise sentence structure. Using these writing strategies is one of the big factors of how Dickinson engages readers into the writing. Allowing oneself to become engaged in reading is a big