Coffeehouse #3

The Traditional Research Paper is the Best by Alexandria Lockett is about the transition from the former way of writing papers to current forms of writing papers. Lockett compares and contrasts the way research papers are researched and how evidence is found. Lockett believes that the traditional paper is no longer the same because of the use of the internet, the lack of searching from a book. 

“Due to technological, and thus pedagogical limitations, the traditional research paper is incapable of translating the affordances of research writing to online environments. Therefore, research 2.0 should respond to the significance of human interaction with the Internet and the politics of big data.” 

“Unfortunately, the labor involved in researching and using the Internet for research tends to be ignored. Their teachers will obediently, and sometimes zealously, police plagiarism with the assistance of Google’s robust search engines and Turnitin”

“For example, some textbook writers used to complain about how research papers often lacked primary sources and relied on questionable secondary materials despite physical libraries’ numerous resources.”

Wikipedia:

“Another definition of research is given by John W. Creswell, who states that “research is a process of steps used to collect and analyze information to increase our understanding of a topic or issue”. It consists of three steps: pose a question, collect data to answer the question, and present an answer to the question.”

“However, some researchers advocate for the reverse approach: starting with articulating findings and discussion of them, moving “up” to identification of a research problem that emerges in the findings and literature review. The reverse approach is justified by the transactional nature of the research endeavor where research inquiry, research questions, research method, relevant research literature, and so on are not fully known until the findings have fully emerged and been interpreted.”