Craft of Research-Chapter 2

This chapter was very informative, relate-able, and easy to read. In this chapter, identifying your audience is discussed. I love that it is apparent that these authors identified their audience. As a college student, I feel that  this book is written for me and it is unique that the authors talk directly to me, the reader, by using the pronoun "you." This chapter looks to discover roles for both the reader and the writer. I particularly like how this chapter addresses the fact that many students just try to throw facts into a paper to show their teacher they have done research and hopefully get a good grade. It is helpful that we are given three different possible roles that we, as the writer, can take on with our research paper. I like that the first role makes a distinction between facts and interesting facts. If the writer presents their information as new and interesting, that automatically makes the paper more inviting to the reader and that is important.