What are some discoveries you have made so far while researching? Did your hypothesis remain the same or did the research reveal some opposing ideas? Finally, did you find yourself disagreeing with a source? Why or why not?
Reviewing your Quotations
Look at something you have written for the RAB assignment. Have you quoted any sources? If so, how have you integrated the quotation into your own text? How have you introduced it? How have you explained what it means? How have you indicated how it relates to your text? If you haven’t done all these things, revise your text to do so, perhaps using the Templates for Introducing Quotations (p. 46) and Explaining Quotations (pp. 46-47). If you’ve not written anything with quotations, try revising some academic text you’ve written to do so.
Navigating Genres
After reading Kerry Dirk’s “Navigating Genres” answer one or both of the following questions. Remember that one of the paramount points of rhetoric is to persuade the reader. It is not the information shared but *how* the information is shared to the writer’s audience. Using what we learned from writing quotes, use at least one “quote sandwich” in your response.
1. What are some genres that you feel you know well? How did you learn them? What are their common rhetorical features?
2. How much freedom do you enjoy when writing? Does it help to have a form to follow, or do you find it to be limiting?
