Research 1&8

William Badke, as a writer, seems to be someone who is personally trying to speak to his audience. While most writers will beat around the bush, Badke gets straight to the point. In chapter one of his book, Badke writes about the the start of it all, being oral tradition, all the way to the internet. I more or less agreed to what he was saying, until he started to write about the internet. One line that really stuck out to me was that since anyone can publish on the internet “we lose all the normal checks and balances that once kept the world from being inundated by nonsense.” I have always known that you can not believe everything that you read on the internt, but this line made it louder in my mind. In chapter eight, Badke gives pointers as how to do research. he writes about how to skim a book without missing anything important. He also writes about how to utilize the book itself by looking at the title page and reading the table of contents and index. Badke can definitely help us in our research paper writing careers and i look forward to learning more of his tricks.

 

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2 Responses to Research 1&8

  1. darren732 says:

    I wonder how many actually look at the index of a book. Whereas many will open and dive right in searching as they thumb thru the pages.

  2. David R says:

    I started using the index of books that i have to read but what ends up happening is that you get multiple pages mentioning whatever it is that i was looking up. index is great but even with that you still have to usually search through the book.

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