Reading Week 6

Chapter 16. Everything's an argument:
This chapter opens with discussing what is a general research paper touches on. The papers entail careful reading, accurate reporting, and conscientious commitment to truth. There are many different ways to construct an academic paper and for the reader to tell that it is one. One example is that most research papers draw upon sources and build and argument from research that has been done; or the academic paper is stiff where the authors done disappeared. It is important to carefully structure research that has been done so different misconceptions cannot be made. The majority of this chapter is primarily about developing an academic argument. There are many different "steps" to creating a good academic argument. First one needs to choose a topic that they want to explore and then get to know the conversations surrounding the topic. Following this one needs to what they know and what they need to know. Next a claim needs to be made, or in other words create a strong thesis statement. Once the author has their thesis they need to consider the rhetoric stance and the purpose of their paper that they are going to create. When writing the academic paper it is key to think about who the audience of the paper might be, and more often than not there will be multiple different audiences. When it comes time to sit down and writ a solid academic argument paper the author needs to weed through evidence and claims (while keeping good documentation) that they have gathered and choose what is supporting evidence of their claim. It is important to also to think about organization, tone, and style. After the draft has been completed, the author should take time to reflect on what they composed and then go back and fully edit the academic argument paper.


Understanding Rhetoric:
This awesome comic discusses how every conversation can be an argument as well as how talking about both sides of an argument is important. Argument can be tricky, most of the time one person always feels like they have to be right, but in reality they should be arguing for a certain position not a claim that they made. The best way to describe what this comic is about, is that everything can be an argument! Look on every side, from every angle, and you can dig deeper into creating a well rounded argument.


Shitty Rough Drafts:
Every good author has shitty rough drafts! Overall, this story is about how writers should sit down, write a shitty draft or two, re-read, go back through and revise. As the story says "very few writers know what they are doing until they've done it". What I drew from this is that every good piece of writing needs time to blossom, it needs time to fully unfold and manifest into beautiful writing.


Chapter 7. They Say I Say:
All writing is conversational. This was the first line that stood out to me in this chapter because I believe this to be very true. It is important for the author of a paper to address the important questions that the reader might have. Who cares? Why does any of this matter? For authors to address the question of who cares, the author can create a template to better demonstrate to the reader why they should care. To address the question of why does any of this matter, the author can create an appeal to something that the audience already cares about. It is always important to keep the reader in mind and make sure that you are answering all of the questions that they may potentially have!