Craft of Research-Prologue and Chapter 1

The Craft of Research book, so far, is not as enjoyable to read as Everything's an Argument but that does not mean it doesn't give useful information. I thought the most useful part of this reading was the reasons to write up research. I know that when I have done research in the past, I am always tempted to just not write the information down but add it straight to my paper. This section gives great reasons for why to write research down.Craft of Research gives three reasons to write down research: to understand, to remember, and to test thinking. The third reason I thought was the most useful. As I mentioned before I am sometimes tempted to just throw a piece of research into a paper with out writing it down but that is not the most effective method. By writing the information down it will give me time to think about how to build on the information I have gather and use the information in the most effective way within my paper.