Week 3 Kleine

SUMMARY

    In this article, Michael Kleine describes the process of research done by professional researchers. He studies and interviews to test his theory of "Are they really doing what he thinks they are?" He finds that most of his findings come from personal interviews rather than observing and reading the research the professionals are conducting. The subjects are writing out of interest rather than being forced to research such as college students. In the end Kleine learned that researching is part of writing and that he learned more off of the research that he conducted rather than what he read.

   I found Kleine's article and Deborah Brandt's article to be very much alike. Like Kleine is learning doing actual physical research more than reading a books Brandt talks about literacy sponsors physically teaching the sponsored. Also Kleine mentions how he views professional researchers conducting their research is sort of a stereotype in the way that different researchers conduct their research differently like how Brandt describes the stereotype of all literacy sponsors having a positive effect on the sponsored.

   When the professional researchers found a source they use it entirely. I think this is because they are writing more out of interest and the more research and sources they have the more it sparks their intellectual interests. When I have a research source I skim through finding useful information for my paper and leave it at that. The difference is often that I am writing out of force rather than pleasure. The sources are the entire research rather than my papers are usually small pieces of several sources.

    I enjoyed reading Kleine's enthusiasm in this article. You could tell her enjoyed learning about the research and personally interviewing the professionals in their respective fields. I also liked learning that professionals write out of enjoyment rather than when I am forced to write a paper on something I am less interested in. The scientific look at the outline of their research rather than looking at it in a writing sort of view was also interesting.