Annotation Blog #11: "From Inquiry" pg. 73-90

1) Summary/ Main Ideas:

• Identifying issues- writers come up with an issue from the situations they observe
• others may not understand your issue
• Draw on  your personal experience
• "we all use personal experience to make arguments in our everyday lives"
• Identify what is open to dispute
• "way to clarify is thinking of it as fundamental tension between two or more conflicting views"
• Resist Binary thinking
• Issues may be more complicated than we thing they are
• examine issues from different perspectives
• avoid oversimplifying the world
• Build on and extend the ideas of others
• Read to discover a writers frame
• frame- "the perspective through which the writer presents his/ her arguments "
• "writers also call attention to the specific conversations that set up the situation for their arguments"
• Consider the constraints of the situation
• constraint- "a factor that narrows the choices you ca make in responding to an issue"
• constraints: the form that response takes and the situation 
• Identify issues in an essay
• "Doing Nothing Is Something" by Anna Quindlen talks about how middle schoolers should have "downtime" instead of being on a strict schedule of activities like adult
• Formulating issue-based questions
• understand the the situation and define the issue that you feel is most relevant and timely
• formulate an issue- based question that can help you think through what you might be interested in writing about
• " a good question develops out of an issue
• Refine your topic
• topic- "is the subject you want to write about"
• Explain your interest in the topic
• Identifying an issue
• Formulate your topic as a question
• Acknowledging your audience

2) Quotes & Reactions/ Responses:

- " Writers do the same with language" (pg. 79). 

This quote caught my eye because it is comparing photography and writing and I noticed they  wrote "language" not "words". This is interesting because throughout this semester we have associated writers with their language,; when before I would always think "words"

- " Our children are as overscheduled as we re, and that is saying something" (pg. 82).

I kinda disagree with this opinion because from personal experience I'm so glad my mom put me into extra circulars so I made friends and did fun stuff. If I didn't try hip hop class, art classes, cheerleading ,etc. I would've sat home and did nothing. I remember when I was little I always wanted to go to summer camp. I actually wish I got into more sports at a young age so I could've better myself in high school and get some scholarships for college because they are now really focused on sports.

-" We are use personal experience to make the arguments in our everyday lives" (pg. 75).

I agree with this quotes just as I demonstrated in quote #2. I always relate discussions with my experiences if I can.

3) Questions for Discussion:

- What is the difference between "inclusion" and "exclusion"? (pg. 88)

- why didn't they explain "fundamental tension" but used it throughout the reading?