Summary:
In their article, Reading and Writing Without Authority, Penrose and Geisler argue that gaining authority does not come through knowledge solely, but by being able to "understand the development of knowledge as a communal and continual process." They demonstrate this by comparing text written by a first year student (Janet) and a doctoral student (Roger). The two scholarly writers discover that authority develops when students acquire confidence in their ability to analyze texts while thinking of the author's motivation and reasoning for writing.
QD:
3. Janet's method is known as the information-transfer model because she simply finds information through research and transfers what she has gathered into her writing. Roger uses a different strategy with his writing; He sees his paper as a conversation and he is more knowledgeable with the topic, therefore he is able to find that gap to fill.
4. I don't think Janet has much confidence in her writing and seeks credible sources to make her writing sound better. She tries to throw information into her paper, even if it conflicts with her other claims, because she does not fully understand what she is reading while researching.
5. My writing is more like Janet's because I haven't developed that ability to see writing as a conversation, which has made me lack confidence. I think this English class has helped me see that writing should be based on an argumentative standpoint and I am slowly becoming like Roger.
MM:
The next time I write a research paper I am going to try to become more confident with it and not just rely on the information I find through my sources. Another way I can improve my future research papers is by attempting to become more knowledgeable with the topic so I will be able to become part of the argument.
Response
I think this article will really help me out for our next paper because it showed me how to have authority with my writing. Confidence plays a key role in developing authority and this article taught me how to gain that confidence and sound more credible.
I really liked your response and agreed with most of your points. I thought that you had a good summary and I like your response to question 5 I said the same thing.
ReplyDeleteGreat summary! That's exactly the way I've been pushing everyone to summarize these articles.
ReplyDeleteI thought you did a very good job with your summary because it brought up all the important point from the article.
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ReplyDeleteI think you did a really good job summarizing the main topic of this article. I kind of put something similar in the sense that confidence is an important while writing a paper, to gain that authority. Nice job!
ReplyDeleteI agree with your response to question 4. [Side-note: way to nail the summary!]
ReplyDeleteYou really captured the main point of the article through your summary. Great job. I also agree to your response to number four how the main reason behind Janet's lack of trust in her ability came from a problem she had with her confidence in her writing.
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