When slating your own ideas on a certain subject, it is not unusual to take one side or the other. But in some cases it can occur that you have no particular opinion on the topic and therefore an argument arises in which you do not take sides and instead lay out the facts for the reader to decide which side he or she, if also undecided, will take.
In the essays "The case for college" and "I'm not racist but..", the authors do not take any particular sides. Instead they present you with information on both sides of the argument and let you decide what you would like to think. …
