Reading Response - Research: More than Detective Work

Emily Baker

Professor Zukowski

English 121

3 Feb. 2016

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Reading Response: Research: More than Detective Work

            I thought the layout of this packet was really cute. It was every entertaining for me because I am a very visual learner. It is a nice change of pace from our text book. I also really enjoyed the fact that it wasn’t just listing the information out, but rather incorporated into a story. One of the most helpful things from this packet for me personally was the explanation about primary and secondary sources. Last semester in history, my professor required us to use primary sources when writing our paper. I kind of had an understanding of what it meant but still ended up having to ask him if a source was primary or not. This packet did a good job at clarifying the differences between the two.

            This packet is a good source to give writers a boost to help them start out writing a research paper; however, I think for it to be truly beneficial the writer would need to have some prior knowledge about writing research papers. I thought that much of the packet assumed that the writer has already written a paper before and is just reminding and reinforcing the key concepts to writing a solid paper.  With a combination of the information from this packet and from the textbook a writer will be well prepared for writing their next research paper.