Exercise 5.6

Exercise 5.6 asks us to have a conversation with a fictional character named Dave. Dave's questions are: 1. Hey you, I think you can't really say that one option is better than another. Don't you agree? 2. There's all this stuff in the book about research as a process of discovery. What did you discover? 3. What do you figure was the most challenging problem you had to solve while working on this project? Hoe did you solve it? 4. After all this work, what do you take away from this experience? What have you learned that you can use? My responses are: 1. I think that this is only true in some circumstances. I would say that if you are comparing multiple options and each person can back their options up with logic and facts then not one option is better than the other but I think that if an option cannot thoroughly be backed up but another can than the one that can be backed up is better. 2. I discovered that there are different kinds of sources and that they vary in their amount of authority and how generalized they are. I also discovered that it can be effective to include different kinds of sources in your research and not just one kind. 3. I think that the most challenging problem was narrowing down such a broad topic. I solved this by only choosing to talk about about a certain aspect of my topic. 4. After all my work I can take away the approach to writing a paper when you break your paper up into chunks and write chunks at a time.