The main objective of Micheal Kleine’s “What is it We Do
When We Write Articles Like This One-and How Can We Get Students to Join Us” is
to inform his audience that when a student is given a topic to research they
routinely go through the ropes of copying facts from one page to another
without taking in the information. Kleine examined the way professional researchers
do research. He built a hypothesis about a heuristic strategy that Kleine
believe the professionals use for researching. After Kleine draws some
conclusions about researching he thinks further about how to get students to
research like professionals.
I think that Micheal Kleine’s piece was very alike to Stuart
Greene’s article. They both try to change the audience in how they view writing.
Their audiences are very alike as well. Kleine and Greene try to change the
view of many college students. While Kleine tries to get them to change the
research habits, Greene tries to show them that all arguments aren’t yelling
and screaming it’s just a conversation.
Before You Read
2. Going through my syllabi I will do at least three researched writing this semester. I imagine the research process will be really difficult and time consuming. I think I will need to spend a lot of time in the library for these processes. I will probably be working on them all semester long.
QD:
1. Kleine’s article lines up with plenty of experiences that I have had in the past. Looking up information and transferring it to a piece of paper and furthermore to a professors briefcase was the main objective of a research paper. I completely think that Kleine is describing the kind of research I do and have done in the past. There is no searching, analyzing, or evaluation going on in the process.
1. Kleine’s article lines up with plenty of experiences that I have had in the past. Looking up information and transferring it to a piece of paper and furthermore to a professors briefcase was the main objective of a research paper. I completely think that Kleine is describing the kind of research I do and have done in the past. There is no searching, analyzing, or evaluation going on in the process.
3. What I got from the passage was that the professional’s
that Kleine interviewed didn’t include sources as a big role in the research
process. I think they wanted to stress the importance of actually writing the
paper and learning from it was the most effective. Sources have played a big
role in my past research efforts. Teachers in my past only care about the
information that you have acquired from a source rather than actually taking in
the information that you have in front of you. I believe that the difference
between making your sources a big role in your paper and making the writing and
learning process is actually learning and sharing knowledge.
4. I would change how I do research by worrying less about
pleasing a teacher with the information that I have acquired and focus more on
learning more about what I’m researching.
I personally liked Kleine’s article. It got me thinking
about the purposes of research papers. I found many of his solutions or ideas
very reasonable about correcting how we gather information and write research papers.
I would love to try out some of his methods.
