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In Greene’s “Arguments as Conversation” he talks about using arguments to base writing. He mentions how we argue everyday and that the subject the argument is based on has usually been debated more than once. Greene discusses using conversation as inquiry for research and comes up with a framing strategy by identifying the issue and situation of a given argument. By doing so we state our own opinions based on our understanding and allow for different feedback and viewpoints to disagree and ask questions, thus beginning our conversation and bringing new research and knowledge of others into the picture. In Greene’s article it seems that he is addressing young adults, mainly college students, by asking them to refer to their own personal experiences. Therefore the content needs to be relatable and interesting to read, but I however felt as though he was basically telling me how to write instead.

Kleine’s article “What Is It We Do When We Write Articles Like This” begins describing both high school and college students in a library writing research papers. He states that the students were barely writing at all because they were mostly copying information and transferring it into their paper. After he mentioned this, it reminded me of my last research paper and how I was one of the students he had just described. After seeing how students go about doing their research papers, Kleine came up with a procedure, or metaphor, for this writing process. He focused on mainly both the “hunting” and the “gathering” stages and compared eight subjects of different academic backgrounds. For example: natural scientists, social scientists, an English composition theorist, and a creative writer. He found both similarities and differences in the way these subjects’ experiences with writing research papers had gone. A similarity was that all of the subjects wrote about something of interest, but a difference in how they went about researching and presenting their work. Scientists seemed to focus more on the data and finish their research before even beginning their writing, while the humanities wrote throughout their research and targeted persuading their audience. I fit more into the scientist “category” because I complete my research before I begin my paper. It seemed Kleine’s audience was both professors (colleagues of his) and the students of these professors because what he presented to the professors would effect how they look at and teach research papers, causing the students to learn to write their research papers that certain way. The content then needs to be factual and the style should be informative.

I agree and disagree with both articles. I enjoyed reading Kleine’s article more then Greene’s because it was more interesting and I felt I could relate to it easier. We are all going research and write differently because we are not all the same. The uniqueness is what makes our writing ours.