Ch 1 Notes
Chapter 1: Why Do We Argue?
- Writing can be empowering giving the person who writes a voice and opportunity saying something meaningful.
So, What's the Point of Scholarly Writing?
- Communication
- Technology gives us more tools to use for research.
A Scholar's Work - in College and Beyond
- to communicate
- to create knowledge
- apprentice as a scholar
Why Bother
- Skills
- Knowledge
- Apprentice scholar
- a personal and professional life
- Habits
Scholarly Habits of Mind
- Make decisions carefully and take their time
- Carefully explain and support their conclusions for others to scrutinize.
- Everyones perspective, including their own is limited.
A Fresh Look at Your Old Writing Process
- Scholars use a recursive process
- They also allow drafting
- revision
- peer feedback to shape ideas
- They also allow drafting
- Effective writing is not a magical or natural talent.
- Your expected to apprentice as a scholar
- To Develop your writing ability
- Knowledge
- Practice
- Feedback
- Motivation
- Knowledge
The One-Draft Wonder
- Efficiency
- Experienced writers don't write the same way every time and neither should you.
Toward a Better Writing Process
- Discovery
- Drafting
- Revision
- Editing
- The more time and effort you spend drafting, the less time you have to invest in discovery or revision.
An Experienced Writer's Process
- If you only write one draft, you lose the opportunity to revise and expand your thinking.
- Set priorities and adapt your process
Practicing Argument
- Have real purposes based in problems that interest the participants.
- Address a specific audience
- Belong to larger conversations, histories, and contexts that determine the rules for what counts as a good argument.
- Pursue ideal purposes
- Address sophisticated, demanding audiences
A Note about Rhetoric
- The investigation of how persuasion and communication work
- Always pay careful attention not just to the content of what you read but also to the author and his audience and purpose.
The Rhetorical Situation
- Rhetorical situation includes writers, audience, and context.
- Who
- What and How
- When and Where
- Why
From Academic Writing to Scholarly Writing
Envision Your Purpose and Audience
Writing with a purpose
- Analyze
- Evaluate or critique
- Interpret
Writing for Your Professor
Writing for Others
Make it Matter
- Why it matters in the first place
So What?
What's Next
- Seeing Yourself as a Scholar
- Real-World Publishing