Reading Response #2

          In his article “What Is It We Do When We Write Articles Like This One – and How Can We Get Students to Join Us?”,  Michael Kleine attempts to write about why students of higher education are not expanding their horizons beyond going to the library and start cramming in fact after fact in their research papers, which leads him to think about those who are professionally academic and figure out why they work beyond the way student conduct their writings and how they reach to that point of their studies, to the point where they find inspiration from people who are just as excited about learning as they are. He argues that if his idea of a more social research model works, students can not only have fun hunting info--to build their writing into more fascinating material--but they can also have fun gathering info to make their overall writing more richer than it ought to be, because he fears that the more students toil their research in a more solidarity location, the less rewarding their work would be if they ever decide to continue that kind of model in future studies. 

            Compared to Sturat Greene's "Argument As Conversation", an article that talks about how arguments could be beneficial instead of threatening, both articles are about two professionals--inspired by their love for writing--figuring out an idea on how writing studies can be a more social occupation, instead of being many lonesome moments of their lives they worked on by now, where a student has to rely on his own cogitative skills to bring a paper to fruition. To Kliene, it is about trying to make the process itself more intriguing, while Greene talks about maybe altering past thinking of his idea completely, to where he thinks social conversations could be made out of arguments instead of two parties fighting over a single truth, all out of respect of a process he loves dearly.

                                                               Getting Ready To Read

          Using myself as an example, what I have done in the past is try to get a general understanding of what it is the teacher wants, then, after looking around on the Internet for general sources, I would look into books that are brought as sources for that project and start writing. Back then, I would try to find quotes that would apply to those papers, and once I found those that were satisfying, I would compose sentences that would strings the sentences into a whole passage about whatever the subject was for that class.

                                             Questions for Discussion and Journaling

 1.)
          From what Kliene talks about, it looks like his research runs half and half on my own experiences. On one hand, his observations of students copying material that will eventually transform into their own writing rings true of what I have done, he does not mention the kind of sentences I would write if I could not rely books on, where I would think up a sentence to string various sources I quoted in my studies.

3.)
          From the passages, Kliene seems to see sources importantly, but not in a way people are used to.  To him, he saw research in a more social context, where the enthusiasm of the professionals around him colored the final research he conducted, while in my case, both the tone and the context of the text inside the books had a role on the papers I wrote. So, if there is a difference, I would say I tried to used my research efforts to empathize the actual material, while Kliene used his research to reach to an conclusion by using his observational judgement. 

4.)
         If I were to use Kliene's ideas, I would probably go out of my way to organize any kind of research in a way that can be understood in a more social context, where superficial material would be unnecessary to those who want me to reach to a point that can be much more communicate to those who are not into the sort of material I am in.
         
          Overall, I would say Kliene's article brought up an idea I'm interested in knowing more about. A more social kind of writing, where one has to hunt for material and gather the reminds of his material in order to make the hunt worth it, is a subject that could make writing procures a lot more fun, and I can see myself being much more fascinated by my material if I had other people observing my own work, since for all I know, they have their theories I never thought of in the first place. If anything, his idea are much more appealing in a more social world, so if there is a way to apply his idea into another step of academic writing, I am sure me, my peers, and the world would be open to it.