This, Too, is Research

Research for Details : Detail, which you can discover through research and pay attention to your surroundings can add significance to your topic. She uses examples of how she saw a tree when riding a poem and wrote about the color of its bloom, the way flowers were arranged, and about the fruits of the tree. When researching to add detail to a piece, we need to be specific, and obviously, descriptive. To explain this, she mentions when her students write essays or poems about trees or birds, she asks, "What kind, can you be more specific here?" She wants to picture a "yellow warbler" or a "eastern meadowlark". Meaning, when writing, we need to describe an instance, event, or a situation in such a way that our readers can picture it in their heads clearly. As an effect, we better our writing.

Research for Inspiration: This type of research uses aspects of every day life to influence our writing. She used examples like using a phonebook to generate names for characters, using an overheard conversation on the bus to spark an idea, and even using garbage to come up with character description and getting the imagination flowing. She asked questions that seemed at at first, such as "what's in your garbage? If a stranger found your credit card bill, what could they interpret about you?". I think these questions were asked to get readers to see how anything in life can be used for inspiration in writing. Even aspects you never really considered valuable in the first place.

Out of all the reasons for research, I used Research for Learning, the most. When learning about the different sides of my organization, I had to read their website and interview their president to better my understanding on them before I conveyed a message to my audience. I used this most for my twitter page, since I used their website to tweet and give out information. I also used Research for Inspiration for my twitter by using a story of a patient that MEDLIFE helped as a reason for using twitter in the first place. For my flyer, I mostly used Research for details, so I can describe the organization in a limited space, but also make sure my audience knows who they are and what they do. As for my sidewalk chalk genre, I would say that it is inspired by Research for learning, since the point of the chalk message is to get an audience to come to a "meeting" and do research on the organization and draw conclusions on whether or not it is something they want to be a part of.