QD Responses 1, 3, & 4

English 151

Madeline Gilbert

QD 1, 3, 4:

1.     Kliene’s hunting and gathering technique is something I use when writing. I feel the hunting and gathering approach helps keep things more organized in many ways. By gathering all sorts of material, it is easier to piece everything together in an organized way, take out what you don’t need and put in what will piece the writing together. When taking a research paper class my junior year of high school, the hunting and gathering approach is what got me through the class. If I would have just tried to type a 20-page paper based on my thoughts, it would have came out as a ramble about topics that don’t correlate with the topic of the paper.

3.     When Kliene discusses about the interviews, sources do not seem to play a big role. The research community seemed to have a big role. I thought this was different. He discusses how even just conversation with peers is a huge part of research along with reading the work of a peer, listening to a paper by a peer, and the use of language with a community (p.27).  By getting many ideas from the people around them and in their community. The people that were interviewed seemed to get most of their information from that.

4.     If I were to change how I did my research based on what Kleine talks about, I would look more at my community research, get ideas from others, and look at some of their writing style and language. I feel that is my weakness too. 

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Before You Read:

Question 1:

When thinking about what argument means, I start by thinking of conversation, an extremely deep conversation that may get heated up sometimes. Although arguments may not be heated up, they are still usually two or more people disagreeing on a subject. Argument is used in everyday conversation because not everyone gets along. Everyone has different views on everything and likes to express their views to others. Argument in an academic setting can be more of an opinionated conversation, maybe someone doesn’t agree with what someone else is saying or what research is saying. And by disagreeing they make it into an argument. I believe the difference between argument in everyday conversation and in academic setting is that; in an everyday conversation it is more personal.

Questions for Discussing and Journaling:

2. I believe that Greene quotes because it gives you a good example of an argument and how it can connect to other arguments. The metaphor starts by explaining how the person coming into the argument may not be fully aware of what is being talked about. But, when they realize in detail what is being discussed, the person then realizes that they do not agree and start to get into an argument about it. This quote presents it’s writing by a story, starting by identifying the situation and then identifying the issue.

3. Framing is a great way to start a type of writing with. It usually frames a question that can help you go into further detail and can be answered with tools, as Greene said. Greene uses the metaphor, “Writers want us to see the world in one way as opposed to another, not unlike the way a photographer manipulates a camera lens to frame a picture” (p. 14).  Writers use language as a tool, where photographers may use different lens or settings. According to Greene, framing allows a writer to do four things. It encourages you to name your position, forces you to offer both a definition and description of your argument, it specifies your argument, and helps you with your thoughts (p. 14).