Assignment 2

Steven Schwarz

English 102

Assignment 2

Building a Mystery

I believe the thesis statement of this piece is that traditional textbooks tend to reinforce unoriginal writing by providing a standardized concept of how academic research writing should look. Posusta created a way for students to write effectively when they procrastinate on the writing portion of a research paper. It ultimately provides them with the bare essentials that every research paper should have.

The argument of the paper is really asking the question, "will this format prepare students for other academic strategies pertaining to their research paper aside from the paper itself?" Procrastination leads to ineffective learning. there's really no way around it.

A lot was said about research writing in general. Posusta says it can be done in one night, but two would be better. If you speak your mind and answer the questions brought up in the research, many times that's just not enough.  The public is uninterested in the detached perspective of the modernist research paper.

They believe their model is helpful to students who would procrastinate on the writing portion regardless of having their model.  Their model for writing gets the job done, and helps the student accomplish what the paper is asking. Unfortunately, for the ambitious student who wishes to do more than just a research paper with their work won't benefit much from this model.  It's not sufficient enough to help with other forms of presenting their research.