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How do the acknowledgements help readers
understand the organization of ideas in the text?
O It gives background information so the author can
explain the chronology of events.
Acknowledgements
The idea for this book began to take shape more
than six years ago when I came across a copy of
John H. Powell's Bring Out Your Dead. Reading
this book was a revelation, not just because of the
depth of scholarship, but because Powell brought
the time alive in a powerful and emotional way.
I've discovered that no one writes about the
Philadelphia epidemic-no one writes about
yellow fever, period!-without relying heavily on
this work, and that includes me.
-An American Plague,
Jim Murphy
o It allows the reader to compare the author's story
to another author's writing.
It provides a list of all sources used to show that
the author's sources are reliable.
It describes why the author writes about the events
and their causes.