Writing Prompts:
In “Researching and Making Claims” Graves talks about how every paper is a research paper. He explains how researching provides credibility and with credibility, the writer can reach the targeted audience better and make them believe whatever is on the paper. The most interesting sentence in the passage is “Learning more about a topic expands your capacity for emotion.” This is the most interesting sentence because if we don’t understand a topic or know about it, we can’t sympathize or understand the passion someone has for it. One example would be immigrants. If a person isn’t an immigrant, they would never experience how scary it is to live in an area that doesn’t speak your native tongue. However, if that person does research on immigration and interviews real immigrants, then they would have a sense of what immigrants are feeling and the struggles they face.
In “The Research Process” the authors discuss the process of researching something and how it isn’t conducted only when writing papers but in our daily lives as well. One sentence that particularly caught my eye is “But research, in the broadest sense of the word, refers to a process of wanting to know more” I never thought of it this way and I find it very interesting because now that I think about it, its so true. When we ask a friend about their day we ask questions like “What did you do today?” or “Why was that the best part of your day?” and this is all a process of researching how their day was. The authors try to tell the readers not to think of research as finding facts to prove an argument but more of an exploration of the topic.
Assignment 3:
I don’t have any questions for the last research paper.
Three groups I would be interested in writing about are Christians, illegal immigrants, and single parents. The reason why I want to talk about Christians is that nowadays, there are many misunderstandings about Christians and as a Christian myself, I want to be able to relieve these misunderstandings through the use of scriptures in the bible. I would also like to talk about immigrants because this is a huge issue in America right now with deporting illegal immigrants. Furthermore, the topic of single parents would also be interesting to write about because many people have stereotypes against single parents and I don’t know a lot about this topic myself so while writing this paper maybe I can find out more about it.