Annotations Blog #2 (They Say/I'll Say, Introduction)

Annotations Blog #2 (They Say/I'll Say, Introduction)

Summary/Main Points:

The main points of the introduction, the the art of conversations. Having a meaningful conversation consist of various things. It would be pointless if a conversation isn't meaningful, thus making the conversation dull and ending it. However disagreeing and agreeing at the same time isn't a bad thing. It allows you to avoid a simple yea or no give you a thoughtful conversation. The involves listening close to other and not just saying with our principles.  It engages in other peoples perspective. So to say, academic writing is an argumentative writing. 

Quotes:

1. Q: "(To) write the voice of others into your text" 

R: It give power not only to your work but to the work of others. 

2. Q: "Many of our students complain that using templates will take away their originality and creativity and make them all sound the same"

R: I believe using templates give a back-bone to our thought and a structure to our writing.

3. Q: "In our view,however, the template in this book, far from being "third-grade-level stuff," represents the stock in trade of sophisticated thinking and writing, and they often require a great deal of practice and instructions to use successfully." 

R: He might be true or false but ultimately defending is template and us buying his book. 

Critical Questions:

1. If it si plagiarism to use a language, is it stealing if we ask to borrow someones pencil but without a template. 

2. If templates stifle creativity, what doesn't everyone use it in every matter? 

Annotation Blog #1 (From Inquiry Pg 1-14)

Annotation Blog #1 (From Inquiry Pg 1-14)


Summary/Main Points:
Academic Writing ultimately needs several ways of achieving. But first of all the definition of Academic Writing is given in the chapter Starting with Inquiry, is the what scholars do to communicate with other scholars in their field of study. In other words academic writing gives you a different conversation leading into a new perspective, analyzing your perspective, persuading your audience. It does not only give you an advantage over your opponent in an argument but it give you better way to connect/communicate with your fellow friends, family, and citizens.


Quotes:
1) Q: "From many different perspectives, and many interesting intellectual of what they discover in research."
R: If there are many different perspectives, wouldn't a academic wring always be rhetorical, because everyone has some kind of different perspective.

2) Q: "Writers often find that writing a fist draft is an act of discovery, that their ultimate focus emerges during the initial drafting process."
R: I do not really find my first drafts as an act of discovery, i find it as more of a stepping stone were discerns are explored and explained.

3) Q: "Any initial difficulty you have with academic writing will pay off when you discover new ways of looking at the world and of making sense of it."
R: Doesn't this apply to everyday life, that the beginning will often start our hard and gradually get easier.


Critical Questions:
1. If different people give you different answers by using different approaches but the answers varies, how do we know which of them are correct?

2. If empathy is the ability to understand ones perspective, then would every idea require empathy for it to be true?