1. What Kleine talks about really lines up with a lot of my personal experiences, from the whole library nightmare to even the simplest problems that most people face when researching for their writings. Most of my more recent experiences have been with the whole late night library nightmare. Procrastination and being easily distracted don't mix well, and when you have work to do in a short span of time left, theres a ton of cramming. During my high school years, I would always rely on the idea of just googling my topic and then pull up the top 10 links and just re-word the information that I thought I really needed. Kleine mentions that most student's simply don't "write", they simply just 'copy' their work. That I could sadly relate to, but he fails to mention that sometimes that when teachers assign work, it's often difficult to really 'write' with the topics given. Students often have to turn to websites and the information given to them, as teachers often don't cover a topic of an paper fully (in hopes that students will self sufficiently learn by simply writing a paper). But in fact Kleine does describe the way I and most peers have done their research. The idea of looking up information just to re-word it as much as possible. Re-wording , to me used to be considered summarizing which was what I thought the paper asked for. Which usually it does, a large part of a paper is usually a summarization of what you know or what you learned with the research conducted.
3. Sources play a very big part of the interviews that Kleine interviews, sources give a huge amount to a paper. The sources admitted themselves that they use the idea of reading and then writing. Sources can either break or make an opinion. It's obvious that sources can be a big part of the picture. The idea that sources doesn't always give non-bias factual information. Take fox news as an example, if anyone took Fox News as a credible source for non-bias information, there would a lot more republican biased opinions. Without realizing, I've done exactly what Kleine has talked about, the idea of just searching for the information needed, stopping then writing about it. I didn't realize that it could affect my writing in such a huge way until Klein brought it up. The difference between good solid research and just simply summarizing the work given to you, is the product. The paper written, if done with the right solid research not just summarization will often have more solid work that doesn't just involve a skimpy summary that the teacher has probably read before.
4. Even though it's difficult to admit, there are changes that needed to be made in order to improve the quality of my papers. During high school, I was often in Honors classes that required 5-8 page research papers that demanded credible information that meshed with a well written paragraphs. Kleine presented the theory of "hunting and gathering" to me, which I found very insightful and could be potentially become useful in the future. The whole idea of better researching equaling a better paper baffled me at first but as I continued to read Kleine's points, I realized it was needed. In order to have a well written paper, solid research not just summarization is needed. In the future when writing a paper, I will strive to do more research to attain more information and a perfect paper.
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