Blog Post 5: What I'm Saying


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Compose a minimum 400 word post that explores and reflects on how your perspective on the issue has changed based on all your research and critical thinking so far. This may range from a complete shift in your opening view to perhaps a more nuanced discussion of how you see the issue as more complex than when you first started your research.

Provide your reader specific details from your sources and life experience that help support your thoughts.

Chapter 22 from Everyone's an Author is a great resource for better understanding this process of moving from what others have said to what you want to say. The questions on pages 428-429 might be particularly helpful:

  • How do the ideas and information in your sources address your RESEARCH QUESTION? What answers do they give? What information do you find the most relevant, useful, and persuasive?
  • How do they support your tentative THESIS? Do they suggest reasons or ways that you should expand, qualify, or otherwise revise it?
  • What viewpoints in your sources do you most agree with? disagree with? Why?
  • What conclusions can you draw from the ideas and information you’ve learned from your sources? What discoveries have you made in studying these sources, and what new ideas have they led you to?
  • Has your research changed your own views on your topic? Do any of your sources raise questions that you can pursue further?
  • Have you encountered any ideas that you would like to build on—or challenge?
  • From everything you’ve read, what is the significance of the topic you’re researching? Who cares, and why does it matter?

Additional questions you could think about and discuss (some might overlap):
  • What stood out to you from your research? Why? 
  • What impacted you the most? Why?
  • Where will you go from here as you start to synthesize all of this into an opinion you would like to assert in a web article? Or do you already have one? 
  • Who will be your audience? 
  • What else do you want to write that will help provide closure of this research journey to your readers, and the greater significance of what you've uncovered?

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