Once the initial period of invention is
completed, you should review what you have learned about the
topic and start to plan your essay.
The assigned readings in the textbook should
help you to set goals and to organize your ideas and information
in order to achieve those goals.
Planning requires you to put your ideas into a
coherent, purposeful order appropriate to your readers; drafting
challenges you to find the words that will be understandable and
interesting for those readers.
Invention continues as you draft, for you will
continue to make further discoveries about your topic as you
work. But drafting requires you to shift your focus from
generating new ideas and gathering further information to
forging new and meaningful relations among your ideas and
information.
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This analysis research
paper has three parts: a review of the writers, a comparison of
the three writers, and a modification of Kuhn's or Asimov's
notions of scientific inquiry that would more readily accept
Goodall's methods. As such,
you will have three major subdivisions. You will need a
MASTER thesis which specifies these three subdivisions. Furthermore, you will need a more
specific thesis statement forecasting the key points on each
subdivision. An outline of this paper could look
something like this:
MASTER introduction/thesis: Kuhn's, Asimov's, and
Goodall's articles will be evaluated, Goodall will be
compared to Kuhn and Asimov, and a modification of Kuhn's or
Asimov's notions of scientific inquiry will be undertaken
so that these scientists might more readily accept Goodall's
methods of scientific inquiry.
I. A review of the writers.
A. Thesis: Kuhn's article is good
or bad because of reason A, reason B, and reason C.
1. Include a presentation of the
subject in which you name the writer, name the article,
include a summary of his ideas, and place his ideas within
the context of the scientific community.
2. Discuss reason one and provide
supporting examples showing how you reached that particular
judgment.
3. Discuss reason two and provide
supporting examples showing how you reached that particular
judgment.
4. Discuss reason three and provide
supporting examples showing how you reached that particular
judgment.
5. Write a conclusion asserting an
overall judgment of Kuhn's article.
B. Thesis: Asimov's article is
good or bad because of reason A, reason B, and reason C.
1. Include a presentation of the
subject in which you name the writer, name the article,
include a summary of his ideas, and place his ideas within
the context of the scientific community.
2. Discuss reason one and provide
supporting examples showing how you reached that particular
judgment.
3. Discuss reason two and provide
supporting examples showing how you reached that particular
judgment.
4. Discuss reason three and provide
supporting examples showing how you reached that particular
judgment.
5. Write a conclusion asserting an
overall judgment of the Asimov's article.
C. Thesis: Goodall's
article is good or bad because of reason A, reason B,
and reason C.
1. Include a presentation of the
subject in which you name the writer, name the article,
include a summary of her ideas, and place her ideas within
the context of the scientific community.
2. Discuss reason one and provide
supporting examples showing how you reached that particular
judgment.
3. Discuss reason two and provide
supporting examples showing how you reached that particular
judgment.
4. Discuss reason three and provide
supporting examples showing how you reached that particular
judgment.
5. Write a conclusion asserting an
overall judgment of Goodall's article.
II. Thesis: Goodall is similar to Kuhn or Asimov in three ways: similarity one, similarity
two, and similarity three.
A. Discuss similarity one and provide textual
evidence from Goodall's and Kuhn's or Asimov's
articles.
B. Discuss similarity two and provide textual
evidence from Goodall's and Kuhn's or Asimov's
articles.
C. Discuss similarity two and provide textual
evidence from Goodall's and Kuhn's or Asimov's
articles.
III. Thesis: Idea one, idea
two, and idea three could be added to Asimov’s or Kuhn’s
descriptions, which would allow Goodall’s kind of science to
be more readily accepted?
A. Idea one and provide textual evidence from
Goodall's and Kuhn's or Asimov's articles.
B. Idea two and provide textual evidence from
Goodall's and Kuhn's or Asimov's articles.
C. Idea three and provide textual
evidence from Goodall's and Kuhn's or Asimov's
articles.
MASTER conclusion: Make some
concluding statements about the topic and tie up any loose ends.