How are opinions expressed? – Rapturous Research

Posted by Sean Lin in English 10 on Friday, January 11th, 2013 at 4:21 am

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/05/rapturous-research/

1. What is the purpose of the essay?

The author of this essay wants to inform the reader about the condition called Rapturous Research.

2. What is the writer’s opinion?

The author believes that this condition exists. This is shown through his disagreeing with a person called “Dr.Wise” on his commentary to the article on the Rapturous Research condition. He states: “Not an actual phenomenon? I could assemble a small army of authors who would respectfully disagree with you, Dr. Wise.”

3. What connections does the writer make with other people?

From the essay, the author made a connection with the other authors who also have that condition. This is shown in “Not an actual phenomenon? I could assemble a small army of authors who would respectfully disagree with you, Dr. Wise.”

He knows that he could assemble other authors because he mentioned that “When somebody at the top table confessed to a case of research rapture, the smirks and knowing looks shared among the panelists made it abundantly clear that all of them had direct experience of this writerly phenomenon.” 
Through the comments on the essay, we can see that he made connections with other researchaholics around the world. People made comments such as “I suffer from this too” or “My name is Arnie and I’m a researchaholic”

4. How does the write inspire the readers (you) of the essay?

This article doesn’t really have content that inspired me or the author did not write to inspire the reader.

5. How does the writer reveal what is important to him/her?

The article didn’t really directly or imply what is important to himself.

 

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  • Christopher Thompson says:

    What is the URL for the article? Is the writer a researchaholic as well? If so, doesn’t that explicitly say that this topic is important to him?



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