Writing Homework Help

reflecting on the content of chapter 3.  

What surprised you most? What confused you most?  Why?

Describe in detail two major points you learned from this chapter?  Use your own words to summarize those sections of the chapter and explain why they seem important learning points for you.

1. Share two or three questions or subjects you find potentially interesting in the realms of writing, reading, and language. Explain why you may find these potentially interesting. 

Respond to the following

Post 1

The main knowledge I learned in this chapter is to research problems and collect data, which is of great help to me. By reading the content of the article, I can know that collecting the data of the problem is of great help to our research. There are many explanations in the book that can help us. When we study a paper, we usually need to look for a lot of arguments in the paper to help us explain our answer, and looking for arguments is the process of collecting data. Many people may think that collecting data is very time consuming and tiring, but it is very useful for us to understand the article in depth.Studying spatial outline can help us learn the method of studying problems better. Develop a complete outline by establishing a center and going through three steps. These steps include outlining topics, establishing questions, gathering data, and so on. What we use most in our research is collecting data, which is the most important step. Data ensures the accuracy of our questions, and collecting data through frameworks makes it much easier. When we don’t have goals, we can’t know what data we need and we can’t find useful data.I was surprised by the importance attached to data in books. I used to care less about collecting data when I was researching problems. I tend to look for data in the main points, but it’s easy to miss information. Sufficient data is an important resource to support our answers. The viewpoints on data collection and the formulation of research questions in the article are the most important ones in my opinion. This helps us stay on a purposeful path rather than being unable to find our way. The heart of the research problem is that we seek answers, and finding the answers we want is very exciting. Data is the backbone that helps us to make our answers more complete and coordinated. What’s potentially interesting is that we all have this problem in our own lives, where we create research questions and find data. We come across something interesting as we read, but we are eager to find some details. These details are the kind of data we need to collect, which is common in fiction. We also need to build data in different places when we write, so that people can better analyze the questions after formulating them. A good piece of writing needs a lot of data and details.

Post 2 

After reading Chapter 3 of Elizabeth Wardle’s “Participating In Conversational Inquiry About writing”, I learned that our conversational inquiry need to formulate research questions, create research spaces, collect and analyze data, and share your research, which is very important. We can make a great help to our conversational inquiry, if we can learn and use these points well. I think the main points of this chapter about the conversational inquiry are very important and worthy of our study, because they can give us a good help in researching problems in the future. However, while reading this chapter, I also encountered some surprises or confusing points.    For the point of confusion, I think it is the example of “Burkean parlor” at the beginning of this chapter. I can understand this term as a party, where a group of people gather in small groups and talk about various controversial topics that interest them. The author said that many people just hear an interesting conversation and then join the group, and when you speak, some people leave the conversation and several new people join. I am very confused about this, but after thinking about it, I think such groups are very common in life. For example, we saw some controversial topics on the Internet. We left our opinions in the comment section and newcomers joined them. The surprising point in this chapter for me is the power of databases. Almost every research field has at least one good database. Some databases contain work from multiple fields, not just one field. If we can use the database well, it will be of great help to us.    As for the “Formulating a Research Question” and “Telling Your Story: Sharing Your Research” mentioned in this chapter, I think these two points are very important. The author tells us the steps of conducting a conversational inquiry, but these two points are about how to tell in the beginning and at the end I think they are more important than the others. Regarding “Formulating a Research Question”, curiosity and discord are mentioned. If you are not interested in what you see around you or personal experience, if you are not curious, it is more difficult to notice or ask research questions. Research problems usually stem from some kind of itching, disharmony, or feeling wrong. These are the beginnings of our problems. Only when we have these two factors can we develop problems and think about if and research.Another point, “Telling Your Story: Sharing Your Research” is also very important. In the spirit of true conversational inquiry, we should share with friends or teachers in the process, get their feedback, consider their suggestions, and write more in response.    For questions or topics that may be interesting in our writing, reading, and language fields, what I can think of is gun control, or some controversial news. These can be good topics because everyone has their own opinions on controversial topics and how to get others to accept your opinions is a very interesting process.