Kleine Reading Respone

Summary

In the reading, Kleine's readers will find out, he is doing a study on his colleagues to find out how they do research reports. He is doing this study because he has discovered that students merely copy and paste their research reports and he wants them to change. Kleine comes up with a "hunting and gathering" diagram to record everyones way of doing papers. By the end of Kleine's research he discovers that almost everyone had a different way of interpreting his diagram. He knows the diagram is still a wonderful idea/tool for writers to use and he invites his students to see what their professors really do when they write.

Synthesis

Kleine has his colleagues narrate their last research report by "recalling the entire experience, attempting to remember the nature of the research, attitudes about the research, sense of audience and purpose, attempts to organize and interpret data, the writing itself, etc." This reminds me a lot of both Swales and Greene's methods also. They are all giving us steps to follow while writing.  

Thoughts

I thought Kleine's idea of the chart was a great idea. It is an easy thing for students, myself, to refer back to while writing. It was also nice to see what professors want out of their students research papers. The steps were very helpful.

Questions

1. Kleine's description of the students in the library is related to myself in cretin ways. I never copy and paste, but I find it hard to interpret texts words in my own. I do research like the students he describes though, I need to find better resources. 

3. In Kleine's interviews with his colleagues he did not worry much about their sources. He wanted to know what he took away from those sources and how they interpreted them. In my past I usually get very confused with my sources and have trouble understanding the information, so I just try to reword what the text says. The professionals understood all of their sources and put the information in their own context, I only reworded the information.

4. My research skills would change all together. I would have better resources and I would understand and interpret the text better.