Monday, February 9, 2015
Living Folklore by Martha Sims and Chapter 2 of The Craft of Research
Chapter 2 of The Craft of Research was an interesting chapter to read. The main focus was to inform you how to connect to your reader when writing a research paper. This is something that I often have trouble with when writing a paper. So when I started reading the chapter I was glad that there would be some sort of steps to help me engage my read in what I'm writing. Although I thought this was going to be something that would help me, as soon as I read the first pages of the chapter I was confused. How I understand how a research paper works is that you research your topic and you gather up facts that you didn't already know about the subject and explain it in your own words in essay form. But from what I read in the chapter you have to be able to explain to your reader what your topic is without assuming that they know too little or that they are an expert (Booth, 17.) How would you even know whether your reader is an expert or not? When do you draw the line? I feel like this concept doesn't quite sit well with me, but I would assume that it is to ensure that the writer doesn't add too little or too much in their research paper.
Now moving on too Martha Sims piece on Folklore's. I thought those two chapters about Folklore were very well explained. She explains every concept that related to folklore clearly and eloquently. Her piece even followed the same writing structure from Chapter 2 in the Craft of Research. These two chapters from Martha Sims will definitely be used in future essays about folklore. Sims covers the bases of folklore while stating uncommon facts that help us better understand folklore.
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I understand why you would get confused by what is being said in chapter two. I feel what Booth is trying to explain is when writing one must consider their role as the writer, and also the role of a person reading their paper. With that comes how your write and how in depth you go with the topic. For someone who has no idea of the topic you're writing about you will explain a lot starting from the basis of your topic. But lode someone who has an idea of you're topic you can be more open in your writing looking at different areas on the topic.
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