This first exercise stated in Curious Researcher is a fastwrite, meaning you write down whatever comes to mind in three minutes without stopping. This exercise helps the writer to think through writing rather than before, which lets the words on the page lead you to what you want to say.
For the first step, I will be doing a fastwrite on a statement that has to do with the research paper assignment. I will be asking myself questions while I write and trying to answer them. The questions will include: Why do I think it is true or false? Where did I get these ideas? Is there a logic behind my beliefs? What might that be? This is a statement that I believe is false: You can't use the pronoun "I".
Step 1: I feel like you should definitely be able to use the pronoun "I" in your writing because it helps the readers understand your viewpoint in an academic argument. However, because of always being taught not to use, I have never actually used it in papers for high school because one, they are not academic writings, and two, because I was not supposed to put in personal experience. All of the papers I had to write in high school were open-ended topic wise, but I was given a strict set of rules to follow and that hindered my ability to add in any form of creativity, and I think that's why I never actually liked writing. I wish I was given more freedom in my writings so I could actually use "I" and put in my own personal experience because some of my papers would have flowed better and understood easier with the addition of my personal experiences and opinions.
For the second step, I will be doing another fastwrite, but this one is more focused on how I see facts, information, and knowledge and how they are created. I will first start by writing whether I agree or disagree and then explore why. I will be looking for concrete connections between what I think and what I have seen or experienced.
Step 2: I completely agree that people are entitled to their own opinions and no one opinion is better than another. I have always had personal opinions about topics that have been argued about with others because they do not see things the way I see them. they have a completely different opinion on the topic and there are times where I do not see where they are coming from either. Each person has his or her own beliefs and they have them because of their personal worldviews and their own experiences that they have gone through to gain these opinions. Every story is different and sometimes it is hard to see things from other people's perspectives. However, I feel that it is necessary to try and put yourself in the other person's shoes because then you can expand your own worldview by seeing what it is that they see.
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