q&r 5

Why students have problem writing persuasive researched papers?

“Helping Students Use Textual Sources Persuasively” by Margaret Kantz, talks about the importance that students should know how to use textbooks to write a research paper and to understand how to teach students to write persuasively and thus the students would be able to achieve this common problem.

The difficulty of writing these papers comes from the way the students do not read correctly and the way they perceive the text they are reading. Kantz shows three reasons why the students have a problem beginning with the part that they do not understand the text. The first reason is that many students misunderstand the text or reading because they try to see them as stories to make a better understanding but the opposite happens. The second reason is which I think that is the most common because before reading this paper I had this problem; many students believe all what they read in the books, so they think all the sources they got are truthful in which case is not. And finally, the third reason is that students do not understand that “the facts are a kind of claim and are often used persuasively in so-called objective writing to create impression”

What students need to do is to read source text with rhetorical reading. Every student needs to make a reading technique and use it when they are reading but in a way that their mind work to give them something more to say. Analyze the text so that they come with original ideas too.