To accomplish this, you can compare or contrast the answers. To do so, look for points of focus--in other words, points where the sources are either similar or different--and use these points to evaluate the logic of the answers to determine which answer or answers make the most sense to you.
For example, if you were searching for a new car, you would look at various cars in the price range you can afford. Then, once you have made a list of possible vehicles, you would look at points of focus to determine what vehicle is best for you. These points of focus may include gas mileage, features, warranties, and customer ratings.
Re-read chapter 10 if you have any questions about how to develop and organize a compare/contrast analysis. Pay close attention to the section on how to organize using block or alternating formats.
With this in mind, please answer the following in your comment:
- Looking at your sources, what might you use as points of focus to compare/contrast their ideas?
- Based on these points of focus, do your sources answer your question in similar ways, or are there major differences in the answers?
- In our class "model paper" on the slasher film, we organized our ideas in the block format, which organizes the ideas around the objects being compared/contrasted. We did this so that we could show the benefits and, more importantly, the weaknesses of Dika and Clover's thoughts on slasher victims so that we could show why Creed's abject theory was the "best" answer in the end. Another way to organize a compare/contrast is the alternating format, which organizes the thoughts around the points of focus (see chapter 10 for more on this). Given your research question and the answers you're finding in your sources, which organizing principle do you think you should use for your draft? Why?
I am looking at contrasts in how the media portays steroid use in baseball players and in football players. Right now it is difficult to organize the two , with so many different opinions. I'm not sure which format I will use . I am trying to reorganize my paper now for Wednesday. In class everything made sense then I get home and try to do exactly ehat we did in class to make my paper flow better without losing my thesis in the process.Most of my sources have great points on my topic but they are pretty much split down the middle, with arguments for steroids and against them, but it is always the same that everyone recognizez that more media coverage is focused on steroid use in baseball.
ReplyDeletei am doing my paper on cell phones in education. when i started getting my research together i had so much of it. i had to decide what was credible and what was not. i like using the alternating method . discussing each point. the similarities and differences. i found when i was doing this paper that there was alot of people that were for the cell phones and alot that were against it.in using the altenate method i can determine was is the most important point of view and what is not.
ReplyDeleteAll of my sources seem to answer my question with similar points of focus. I had a hard time comparing and contrasting for my research question. I used the alternating format to organize the ideas of the sources for my research question. Most of the ideas from my sources where pretty much on the same points. I found that a lot of the sources really where for the idea of steroids not giving an athlete a competative edge and more towards the idea of many other drugs being used by athletes.
ReplyDeleteI found the same stuff Kathy and Jasmin did. All the papers pretty much said the same thing and focused on baseball.
ReplyDeleteLooking at my sources, I used their different opinions and veiws on minimum wage to compare and contrast their ideas. It was kind of hard for me to find the right sources for this paper, because I was looking for one answer to the question, and most sources focused on more than one thing. So I had to do a pick and pull of a few different sources. Also, even though I did the pick and pull, I mainly focused on one source, because that was the one in which i found had the best information and it was explained clearly, unlike the other ones.
ReplyDeleteFor organizational purposes, I somewhat used the block method, because it helped me map out my draft so it would be easier to put together. Most of the time, I dont really use any method, I just write from my mind and i have it all mapped out up there lol. But I tried to use a method that was taught, just to see what it was like.
All in all, i'm unsure if i did this paper correctly, but i tried my best to do what we did in class with the slasher films.