40: Research Starts with Answers, by Alison C. Witte

Kyle Stedman (@kstedman) reads the bad idea "Research Starts with Answers," by Alison C. Witte (@acwitte82). It's a chapter from Bad Ideas about Writing, which was edited by Cheryl E. Ball (@s2ceball) and Drew M. Loewe (@drewloewe). Don't miss the joke: the author of the chapter is disagreeing with the bad idea stated in the chapter's title.

Keywords: argument, claim-based writing, classical argument, data-driven writing, research paper, research writing, rhetoric

Alison Witte is the Supplemental Instruction Coordinator at the University of Dayton. She has taught research writing to college students for more than 10 years in courses on research writing, research methods, technical writing, and advanced composition, and she has co-developed curriculum for teaching research writing to international graduate students. Her research interests include student research practices, digital pedagogy, digital pedagogy preparation, and non-classroom writing. Her twitter handle is @acwitte82. (2021 bio)

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