Swales and Greene Reading Response

 Summary for Create a Research Space

In this reading there is a clear point that is being put across. Swales is explaining the best ways to write, read and understand research reports. He is lending his knowledge to others seeking help writing, reading and understanding research articles. Swales is teaching this in moves and steps. He explains the moves and then lists the different steps of completing the move. For example, in move 2, you can indicate a gap in your research to establish the niche in your paper. I find his methods very useful. I never thought of comparing findings, something I'll definitely be doing in the future.

Summary for Argument as Conversation

Argument as Conversation tells the reader ways to learn how to argue in a scholarly  way. The readers Greene is directing this book to are either high school students or college students. Greene is trying to teach students that scholarly teachers want their students to have conversations open to dispute. Students need to understand and accept others opinions and points during arguments. They need to come up with their own ideas, not reword others. Students need to learn these things because writers are going to try to make them agree with their point by having all arguments connected. This is good to do when writing a paper, but when reading you need to be aware of it. 

Synthesis

The two articles have their similarities and differences. Both teach us how to read and write research reports. Both Swales and Greene have different ways of teaching this, but both want the reader to focus on one main thing. The main focus is to have a main subject in your writing and branch off of it. 

Reading before Writing

1. Think about how you define argument.
An argument is two or more people sharing their opinions about a subject to and/or against one another.

2. How is it used in everyday conversation?
Arguments are often used in everyday conversation. They do not have to be aggressive. Arguments can simply be stating your opinion and reasons about decaf vs. regular coffee against another in normal conversation.

3. What do you think the word means in an academic setting?
I think an argument in an academic setting is like a discussion about a subject. 

4. What's the difference between the two?
The difference is that an argument in everyday conversation can be aggressive or it can just be an opinion about shoes. In an academic setting an argument is informative and useful to the class. 

Questions for Discussion

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2. Greene brings this quote up again because it is such a great example of what could happen in a classroom. In a classroom a argument or debate could go on for weeks, stopping and starting as it pleases. Burke keeps this metaphor going because in arguments your are most likely never the one to come up with t he first idea of it. Argument topics go on forever. This metaphor presents writing in a way that is relatable to real life conversation, so it is more understandable to the reader. The writing also puts you in an imaginative place to help you further understand the point of the metaphor. This passage also challenges entering and identifying the argument. 

3. Framing is like planing out you paper or a part of you paper. It helps you develop your argument and your position on it. After you have found your position you the define/describe the principle. Then you specify your argument, so you can organize your and your readers opinions in you paper. This is important to Greene because he uses it in the very book.


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2. Yes, Greene's article does represent a conversation. The conversation is between himself and his readers. Greene frames his argument by first stating his opinion on the discussion, second explaining his reasoning, third specifying the argument and fourth organizing his and his readers opinions. After framing, Greene had a steady layout of his writing. Greene definitely practices what he preaches in his book. He enters the argument, figures out the issues, gains knowledge on that issue and follows his frame.

Thoughts

I learned a lot from these two articles. Swales taught me to compare different thinking's and/or findings in my papers instead of just listing them. Greene taught me the steps to take while writing or reading a paper. Framing is definitely a method I will be using for future research papers.