In the second chapter of The Craft of Research by Wayne Booth, Gregory Colomb, Joseph Williams, Joseph Bizup, and William Fitzgerald, I learned about how to relate my context more to the reader. The biggest mistake I have in my papers is the readers cannot quite catch the meaning that I try to establish. “Yet even experienced researchers sometimes forgot to keep their readers in mind as they plan and draft” (Booth). During the first quarter, I sometimes wrote something only make sense to me. After read through Chapter 2, I understand that I need to converse my work with the reader. In order to do that, I need to put myself in the readers’ shoes to view my work.
Later in the chapter, authors illustrate that writers need a better way to address their work in order to establish a better relationship with readers. Authors made an example of constructing sentence in two different ways. One of them uses technical terms, which may cause confusion to the readers. Being a good writer should always consider themselves as a reader in the first place, providing simple information or more relative knowledge to help the readers to understand the context.
In order to develop a solid relationship between writers and readers, they need to come up with an interesting idea for both ends. “You have to create a relationship that encourages them to see why it’s in their interest to read yours” (Booth). Fewer people read researches for fun. In order to make readers keep track on what writers say, writers have to pick a unique angle. The readers will find joy while they read through the paragraph. Meanwhile, they will generate their ideas about the message the writers delivered.
Overall, I hope that I can develop better relationship with my readers through my paper. It should not only have a strong argument point but also keep readers engage in the context.
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