Reading Response No. 2

Getting Ready to Read pp. 22-33
Question:
Look through your syllabi for courses  this semester: How many of them require research writing? Right now, how do you imagine doing the research for those projects? Make a list of what you think you'll need to do to accomplish the projects.
The only class I have this semester that requires researched writing is English 1510. I imagine doing the research for these projects by finding credible resources and rechecking the information before I use it. A list of things I'll need to accomplish these projects are:
Time, patience, good ressources, skills to collect information I need and leave information I don't need.

Reading Response No. 2
In his article "What Is It We Do When We Write Articles Like This One-and How Can We Get Studrnts to Join Us?" Kleine attepts to educate and perhaps start a conversation with other teachers of English on how to inspire students to improve the way they research and write papers. He argues that merely copying information and writing it down, writers should sifit throught the information further and translate those thoughts into their paper. This is because merely looking up information and copying it down into notes, then paraphrazing it into your own words isn't really writing at all.

Questions for Discussion:
1. What Kleine is talking about does hold true to the way I have done research papers in the past. Not many teachers will give their students this sort of insight. They usually say: "Here's a research topic. The paper is due in two weeks." The details of good research and writing don't rank high on the list of priorities with teachers I've had in the past.

3. I believe that the sources do play a small role in the reasearch of the professionals that Kleine interviewed, but the information that they are searching for is more important. However, sources play a big role when I write research papers becuase most teachers I have had have emphisized the importance of having a certain number of credible sources. The difference between the two is that when you have a certain number of sources you have to have, you focus more on that than the information itself; which the professionals obviously don't do.

4. I would read the information more than once and more carefully. Also, I would analyze the information more to see which parts of it I need and which parts I don't, and really think about what I want to write rather than copying or paraphrasing information into the paper.

My personal opinion of this articl was that it was helpful in rethinking the way I do research and write research papers. I have also discovered new strategies for completing research papers that I will try in the future.