In addition to providing insight into the article, the family of ideas it ad-vances, and the disciplinary orientation of the inquiry, noticing keywords and phrases can also inform further research, providing search terms rel-evant for exploring and locating related sources.
This section kind of confuses me. Does it mean that you can explain the keywords as a part of your research?
A semantic worknet also helps you understand specialized vocabulary on your own terms, acting as a gateway into the terminology in the article. No-ticing these words and phrases is a first step toward learning what the words and phrases mean.
good for subjects you know little about. especially if it is complicated and/or scientific.
Each nodal connection gives you another research path to follow
helpful if you get lost or run out of ideas.
Worknets
what we did in class?
you will develop quantitative data, or representative numbers, that answer your question. If you’re interested in longer, more nuanced answers, you might also provide open-ended questions on your survey, and you’ll develop both quan-titative and qualitative data, or non-numeric data not organized according to a specific, numerical pattern.
important definitions since qualitative and quantitative are often confused.
Research is really only worth engaging in if you learn something from it.
is it helpful to have a question you know nothing about?
but that statement of belief should not be where you start.
go into research openminded
hrough writ-ing and delivery (circulation), researchers and the texts they produce both participate meaningfully in and also continue to shape research conversa-tions
it is good to know research is meaningful that is motivating
but researchers abide by a code of ethics that holds them to standards that help them maintain safety and develop meaningful research.
remaining ethical can also be useful when trying to convince someone of your research because if it sounds like you are attacking a certain group of people your research will not seem as valid.
What need does it fulfill for its audience?
Different research methods are very important for different audiences and types of research. Good thing to keep in mind.
So when you read, read like a researcher: con-sider both what is said about an issue and how it is said.
Reading more scientifically (like a researcher) probably really helps when finding research articles.
work with visuals (the focus of Chapter 7 in this book). As a starting point, you might just consider the visuals you have come across in the day so far. What were they? What did they communicate? How did they impact you? How can visuals share information about research, and how might they be the subject of a research project?
I do not really understand what this one means.
If you buy deodorant, you test it on yourself, a human subject.
These are very simple examples that do a great job explaining how research is done everyday.
and to ask a writing learning coach or tutor for feedback on your research question.
Asking someone who is more knowledgeable about research or your question is helpful.
For example, if you're assigned a research topic on an issue confronting the ancient Babylonian family, remember, by virtue of your own family life, you already know a great deal about family issues. Once you determine what you do know, then you're ready to do some general reading in a textbook or encyclopedia in order to develop a usable research question.
This is a goo statement because it is a wonderful tip for researchers. it shows how you probably know a little about every subject even if your knowledge isn't a lot or feels a bit disconnected.
we need to learn to embrace uncertainty and feel comfortable knowing we might not always have an answer when we begin a research project.
I feel like this sentence really emphasizes the message of the passage.
When students graduate and move into the working world, employers can encourage them to ask questions about policies, practices, and workplace content; employees should be given freedom to explore those questions with research,
I like this part of the passage because it shows readers that learning how to do research is not for nothing and not just busy work for school.
As we research, we may find ourselves returning to and changing our question, or we may near the end of a project and think we’re done but discover we need to go back to find more or better sources. The messiness of research requires us to be flexible,
This passage shows how it is acceptable and even accepted to have to change your research as you go along. This makes research feel more free and creative rather than strict and boring.
Like a daisy’s petals, research is described as cyclical and fluid.
this is a good simile for research
discuss the shift from oral to literate culture and how the introduction of writing affected the ways people thought about and communicated about the world around them.
This shows that writing helped research become more known and accessible throughout society.
impetus
I did not know what this word means so heres a definition: "the force that makes something happen or happen more quickly." or "the force or energy with which a body moves"
Rather than limiting the conception of research to a search for certain facts or pieces of evidence or to a trip to the library, it needs to include the processes of primary research—research collected directly by the researcher using tools he or she has designed to find the information needed to answer a particular question
This is interesting because usually when college and high school students think of research they think of library research or online sources. This way we can conduct out own research and find more personal sources.
We hope that the collection is a conversation-starter, not a conversation-stopper, and we hope that it provides a catalog of support for productive conversations about how and why to stop the bad ideas about writing and start the good.
Im assuming we will have many discussions on these topics based on this quote.
How writing should be assessed
I did not know that writing needs to be assessed in a certain fashion.
searching for their other work at a library or online will produce additional information on these topics.
This provides Ethos for the readers.