Kleine Article

                                                        Summary

Michael Kleine's article begins with a very interesting story about a night when he was at the library. As he looked around, he noticed students writing research papers. He said he could tell they were writing research papers because they weren't really working, they were just copying or paraphrasing from books, article, etc. He then says that he is worried because he himself is there to write a research paper, only on a much higher level. He then gives two different types of writers, the hunters who go on a mission and find what they are looking for, and the gatherers, who simply discover or come across things that may be helpful. Next, he decided to test this hunter/gatherer theory by gathering colleagues from different subjects and asking them questions about a recent research paper the wrote. What Kleine discovered is that more educated people, like professors, do their research in hopes of learning something new and being able to inform others about. Students, on the other hand, just want to get the paper over with. Kleine expresses that he hopes one day students will change and start caring about their research and their papers.

                                                    Connections

Right of the bat, i noticed a similarity between Kleine and Rosenberg's article because they both start with a story involving he or she and how they came upon the idea for this article. I also believe these two articles are similar in the aspect that they both try to help students organize and get more enthralled into writing a paper. However, in my opinion, by looking at the titles of the article, it seems that Rosenberg;s article was directed at the students to read, Kleine's article was more directed at the teachers to read.

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Research plays an important role in the professionals that Kleine interviews, however it plays a different role than in my papers. For the professionals, they do research to confirm the ideas and thoughts that they are going to write about, but they don't actually take any of their ideas. For students like me, we do research to add substance and words to our papers, and sometimes take words that aren't ours but use them because they relate to our topic and help us reach our page or length requirement.

                                                      Opinion

The first half of the Kleine article had my attention because of the story of the high school kids writing their reserch papers and just paraphrasing sections of books and articles. I remember when i had to write my research paper in high school, and I was definitely guilty of writing my paper similar to the high schoolers that Kleine described. The only thing that I didn't like about this article was that I though his findings section was a little wordy and I found myself having trouble finding what the results actually were.