Researching and Making Claims Summary and Response
In the reading Research and Making Claims, the author, Seth Graves, puts forth the importance of researching in a piece of writing. He starts of by giving an analogy of going into to a forest. At first, if one will go through it, he/she will probably just see trees. But as they use the resources understanding what type of trees they are surrounded by, they will realize that what seemed as all the same before are now completely different and have their own specific names. Similar is the case with researching. It not only gives us the knowledge but also, “ expands the your capacity for emotion.” In a sense, it changes who we are. If looked at from a broader perspective, every paper written is a form of research paper since at some point one tend to use primary or secondary sources to support their claim. As a result it gives the paper more credibility since now the audience of the intended paper knows that the author has done some fact check before producing the paper; this is one the main reasons in doing research. The most interesting sentence of the piece for me would be “research has the power to change us.” I never looked at research in the sense that it could go as far as to changing someone. But, in a sense, this seems to be true because when you look at it, it opens up the realm of the unknown for us which makes us emotionally vulnerable to topics we didn’t know existed before.
The Research Process Summary and Response
Unlike Graves piece, “The Research Process”, by Seth Graves, Lucas Corcoran, and Kamla Belmihoub, talks more into the process itself of researching. Research not necessarily has to do with digging deep into boring and lengthy articles and big, dense old books but it is actually just about finding ways to satisfy one’s curiosity. Surprisingly, it is actually very relatable to everyone since it can be anything from asking around about a movie and deciding whether to watch it or not to something that strikes us as unusual or extraordinary in one’s everyday life. Inquiry is a n important aspect of research. Sounds like a very simple and insignificant method because we use it daily in our lives when we ask anyone about anything, but has utmost importance. This can be described as secondary source of evidence in terms of research. What seems to astounding is that the best research question comes from everyday life experiences- the more personal it is, the more intrigued you are to research about it. For me, the most interesting sentence of the piece was “…[research] isn’t so much a collection of facts that prove your case but rather a type of exploration.” In opinion this resonates with the sentence that intrigued me in the last reading as well since this is also regarding research as a way of further finding yourself in terms of your research question.