The ideas behind the I-Search paper are certainly ones that deserve their place in a classroom. The tasks such as interviewing and defining a topic are one's that I've encountered throughout various classrooms. The I-Search handout really coincided with our discussion on Monday about Ethos, Pathos, and Logos in the way that it really seemed like the basis for what I've been asked to do in a lot of speech classes. Funny that speech and writing are quite similar, I mean it is a very closely related subject.
My problem with some of the posts this go around is the research paper bashing. While this has never been my pick of the litter when it comes down to crunch time, having to produce these works has inevitably helped my writing...perhaps not in the traditional sense, but in being able to structure my arguments and framing a complete paper. While many students will tend not to say what they feel, but rather what others have already said, I think that being able to structure your own views and ideas is something that can only be made concretely valid (especially in the high school classroom) when it is influenced by those who have already established credibility (also coinciding w/ our Pathos, Logos, Ethos).
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