Reading Response “Research Essay”

In chapter ten, The Research Essay, Krause first talks about why we call it a research essay not a research paper. He says that the vibes that we get from the word papers is not positive, so when kids hear essay, they feel they can be more creative. He also explains that most college papers need research, so every paper is a research paper. His last point was that research can mean so many different things in different fields. When going through our papers we need to be asking ourselves questions. Questions are a way to make sure that everything that needs to be answered, is. Also we need to be able to look at our purpose and think of how we need to write it. Who the audience is going to be will change the way you write anything. This is also know as your voice. Through the end of this chapter, Krause goes through every step including editing a paper. He makes sure that each step s explained and tells why it is important. The introduction is to get the readers attention and explain the essay. Background information is the explanation of every piece of evidence. Through out the paper pieces of evidence need to be weaved into the writing. In the conclusion you must bring the reader to a point of closure. But you cannot just close your paper it needs to be a smooth ending. Krause says that it is good to connect the conclusion with the introduction. In the end of chapter ten Krause talks about how to cite your sources and why it is important. This is where you give credit to the evidence that you used in you paper. This can be other research, books, movies, interviews, anything. I think that this would have been a lot more helpful at the beginning of the semester or even in 101, this is because by now if you don’t know how to do these kinds of papers you are in trouble.