Day 17: Researching Stereotypes and “Fake News”
“Introduction to Researching and Making Claims,” Seth Graves
The central point of this introduction was the assertion that action of research has the power to change or form the users own claim to the topic. Through learning more about a topic (actively researching it), the readers capacity for emotion and understanding expands to either shape or alter the proto-research thinking. The most captivating sentence of the piece reads, “So why do we do research? For one, it provides us with a check-and-balance system for claims”. This concept for checks and balances was interesting and I could relate this to my experiences. I often entered a prompt with a set of claims or beliefs about the topic and, after research, had my thinking “checked” or completely changed.
“The Research Process,” Seth Graves, Lucas Corcoran, and Kamal Belmihoub
The central point of this article was that the concepts derived from research is a process of internalizing where the process of researching is the catalyst for change/learning. The most interesting sentence of the piece reads, “Research, in this sense, isn’t so much a collection of facts that prove your case but rather a type of exploration”. This accentuated the central idea by describing research as a trip, not an action. I could see how this is true in writing projects where you end up researching multiple accounts of an issue and this leads to your own understanding.