Chapter 5 exercise 1

In this excerpt Julie Charlip discusses what people view the middle, working and upper classes to be. Since she is stating others' views as well as her own she uses signal phrases to let the reader know what her personal ideas and views are. She starts of by using a quote of Marx and Engels. After the quote she uses a key sentence to notify the read that she disagrees. She states "If only that were true, things might be more simple." That sentence claims that Marx and Engels were wrong since what they said is not true. There are several other times in the excerpt where the author uses signal phrases such as; "But I..." , "His definition..." and "he said..."