{"id":59,"date":"2016-04-16T07:50:30","date_gmt":"2016-04-16T07:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/lcosgrove\/?p=59"},"modified":"2016-04-16T07:56:18","modified_gmt":"2016-04-16T07:56:18","slug":"a-response-to-klein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/lcosgrove\/2016\/04\/16\/a-response-to-klein\/","title":{"rendered":"A Response to Klein"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reflecting back on my first archival research experience, I can fully agree with a lot of the points made in Michael Klein’s “What Is It We Do When We Write Articles Like This One–and How Can We Get Students to Join Us?” One of the first points he makes about the research procedure is that it is not a linear process,<\/strong>\u00a0meaning that it is not realistic to assume that “planning and inventing guides a writer through subsequent acts of text production and revision” (Klein 24). The process is much more complicated than that, especially\u00a0when doing\u00a0archival research, where\u00a0you don’t always quite know what you will\u00a0end up finding.<\/p>\n

I experienced this a lot during\u00a0the first stage of the archival research process. I had no idea what I wanted my research question to be, so in a sense, no planning could be done. In a way, the information-gathering step came before planning in the sense that I was scanning the different artifacts to try and decide what my topic of choice would be. In this way, my research procedure was almost\u00a0the opposite of what the linear diagram would predict.<\/p>\n

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Another point that I\u00a0agreed with was the fact that writers can develop a sense of rhetorical purpose as the process is ongoing<\/strong>, as opposed to knowing beforehand. This refers to the importance\u00a0of\u00a0writers staying open-minded about unexpected data and insights that they may discover during the process.<\/p>\n

As I experienced during\u00a0my research process, once\u00a0your findings\u00a0come\u00a0together into a more organized form, and as\u00a0you\u00a0continue to gather other bits of relevant information, a sudden “so-what” or insightful point could hit\u00a0you. This occurred for me during the writing portion of my process. As I re-read my work over and over, I noticed the\u00a0ways in which my points connected to one another, and thought about how these points contributed to the same bigger-picture or larger discussion.<\/p>\n

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In summary, I thoroughly enjoyed this article by Klein, as I could draw so many parallels to my own research process experience.<\/p>\n

Images Cited:<\/p>\n

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