Chapter 7+8 Quiz

The majority of my research for Core 4 consists of mostly arguments of definition, with an added bonus of one or two arguments of fact. When investigating what it means to write better, an article taken from Jack Herrick is mainly an argument of fact. He lays out a plan to aid the writing process from facts, not necessarily from the definition. This topic is very subjective; hence, while researching I ran across many more arguments of fact versus arguments of definition. In the Wysocki and Johnson-Eilola article, the definition was mainly argued. Information about the definition was needed in order to eliminate some of the bias within my research, so I found a dissertation by Christina Haas. Haas did an investigation similar to Goulds which was primarily about quantity and quality of writing. This dissertation included both arguments of fact and definition; this mix was the basis of her paper. Haas had two seperate groups of people write a short response, one group writing on the computer while others were writng with pen and paper. When analyzing the quality versus quantity, her findings concluded that the persons that were writing on the computer actually excelled at quantity over those with pen and paper, but the quality of those with pen and paper excelled. This could be because those with pen and paper knew that it would take them more time, so they planned more. Those who wrote on the computer planned less and edited more because technology allowed that. This researched played a major technological link in my research because it allowed me to bridge the gap between writing with technology versus pen and paper. In my research I planned to keep a balanced amount of arguments of fact and arguments of definition, but since there is a lot of subjectivity of my topic, most of my research is that or arguments of definition. More of this is needed to clearly explain my topic and make it more solid for investigating.