{"id":187,"date":"2017-04-27T01:18:04","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T01:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/abensching\/?p=187"},"modified":"2017-04-27T01:18:04","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T01:18:04","slug":"a-sparknotes-version-of-kleins-what-it-is-we-do-when-we-write-articles-like-this-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/abensching\/2017\/04\/27\/a-sparknotes-version-of-kleins-what-it-is-we-do-when-we-write-articles-like-this-one\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sparknotes Version of Klein&#8217;s &#8220;What It Is We Do When We Write Articles Like This One&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Do you hunt or gather when you research? Michael Klein defines <strong>hunting<\/strong> <em>as searching for\u00a0what \u00a0information you are looking for<\/em> and <strong>gathering<\/strong> <em>as coming across information that might be useful<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The researchers he interviewed\u00a0and he himself switch between both modes of researching. Then he split those two ideas into four stages. He created a diagram to represent this complex breakdown of the research process ( a similar one is depicted below).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<strong>Collecting \u00a0 \u00a0Rhetorical \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Pattern \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Translating \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Sifting \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Seeking \u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-188\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/abensching\/files\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-26-at-4.11.09-PM-300x147.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"438\" height=\"215\" \/>\u00a0<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Hunting<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Gathering<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Klein\u00a0would put numbers in the appropriate\u00a0boxes as he was interviewing fellow academics about\u00a0their research process. A number signified when the researcher had utilized the method of a certain column and row.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The stages are defined as follows&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p1\"><strong>Collecting<\/strong>:\u00a0<em>compiling information and sources<\/em><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><strong>Rhetorical Sifting<\/strong> :<em> narrowing the information to that relevant to the question you are asking<\/em><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><strong>Pattern Seeking<\/strong>: <em>identify patterns in data to confirm or reject arguments<\/em><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><strong>Translating<\/strong> :\u00a0<em>writing facts\u00a0into a coherent message<\/em>\u00a0(most would \u00a0not consider this\u00a0research)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now that we\u00a0know the gist of the article and vocabulary of Klein, we can apply it to ourselves as students.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I think that if I were to be interviewed about my research process there would be more\u00a0data\u00a0in the gathering row and the translating column. \u00a0So, my style is to\u00a0spend more\u00a0of my time encountering\u00a0exactly what information I want and\u00a0translating raw information\u00a0into an argument through\u00a0writing. That is not to say that I would \u00a0not have something in each box, but rather that the concentration would be skewed towards those areas.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 337px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/3\/35\/Tristram_Shandy_Plot_lines.png\" width=\"327\" height=\"248\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Research is not linear!<\/strong> Source: Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">Klein mentions that perhaps there not exactly a direct or linear route and I definitely agree that in my experience research is messy and complex.\u00a0It is logical that there are too many variables to be able to crunch research down into some prescribed\u00a0process. However, these categories do help guide students.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">What boxes do you tend to\u00a0spend the most time in during your research process and which do you neglect?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you hunt or gather when you research? Michael Klein defines hunting as searching for\u00a0what \u00a0information you are looking for and gathering as coming across information that might be useful. The researchers he interviewed\u00a0and he himself switch between both modes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/abensching\/2017\/04\/27\/a-sparknotes-version-of-kleins-what-it-is-we-do-when-we-write-articles-like-this-one\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1780,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"qubely_global_settings":"","qubely_interactions":"","kk_blocks_editor_width":"","_kiokenblocks_attr":"","_kiokenblocks_dimensions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"gutentor_comment":16,"qubely_featured_image_url":null,"qubely_author":{"display_name":"abensching","author_link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/abensching\/author\/abensching\/"},"qubely_comment":16,"qubely_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/abensching\/category\/uncategorized\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Uncategorized<\/a>","qubely_excerpt":"Do you hunt or gather when you research? Michael Klein defines hunting as searching for\u00a0what \u00a0information you are looking for and gathering as coming across information that might be useful. 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