Both Greene and Kleine write about research as "inquiry." Greene specifically asks us to think about how we can see research and argument as "conversational inquiry," and Kleine's article asks us to think about how we go about doing research and what we do with it once we've done it. I think it's important that we begin our class thinking about these ideas because WHY we do research is an important pre-question to HOW. Today, I'd like to get a sense of your answers to both of these questions. So, read the next paragraph and write your own response.
Certainly, we all probably vacillate between being "hunters" and "gatherers" depending on our task, but for the purposes of thinking about the work you'll do in our class, I'd like to get your ideas about how these two articles might apply to your life as a student. What's the difference between "hunting" and "gathering"? Which one are you, and does it depend on what you're being asked to do? If you're mostly a hunter for school purposes, why is that? What do you think encourages this kind of approach to research, and how might it change your life as a student if you were more of a gatherer than a hunter? What have your past experiences with research for school been like? How did you find sources for your work, and how did you use them in your writing? Try to refer to a specific experience or two and analyze these experiences in light of your reading for today. When possible, refer to Greene's and Kleine's articles, quoting or paraphrasing bits and documenting what you take with parenthetical documentation so we can go back to the articles if we want to find what you're referring to. And, once you've written your initial post, come back in later this afternoon or over the weekend and read what others have written. Respond to an idea brought up in at least one other person's post. DUE DATES: 1st post: 5:00pm Friday; 2nd post: by at least 10:00pm on Sunday.
In terms of research, hunting and gathering are two different approaches that might be employed in order to adequately gather appropriate research. When you hunt for research, you are looking for articles of books that talk about specific topics that applies to your paper. For example, when doing a historical compariason between the Chernobyl and Three Mile Island incident, as I have done before, I started with hunting for books on the specifics of the incident.
ReplyDeleteFrom there I went and gathered books and information surrounding the incidents, books about people's opinions on policy and decisions that were made, and basic background information about the Chernobyl and Three Mile Island incident.
As my anecdote shows, I am able to do both, and adapt to what I need to write. When writing brief overviews on topics that don't go into a lot of specifics, information hunting is more useful while gathering is more useful when comparing, contrasting and discussing topics.
I've always found looking up books on the internet, or using Google to look up sources to be quite effective. Using research databases such as JSTOR have always proven to work as well. Having these resources in school was a boon, because it granted me access to a lot of information.
Any way that you end up gathering and finding your research, it always serves as the basis and frame for your paper. Greene uses the analogy of a photographer on pg 14 line 13, but I like to think of it more like a frame for a house. It does get covered but it forms the shape and features of the writing and gives it the support that it needs
The difference between “hunting” and “gathering” as described in the WAW pg 25 line 6 “A hunter must go into the world with a strong sense of purpose and direction, and employ deliberate strategies and technologies to kill his game and he must find what he is looking for”; the gatherer “must look about widely, making sense and use of the food he discovers fortuitously and he discovers that which might be of use”
ReplyDeleteAs per my previous experiences, for school purposes I identified better with a gatherer. I go out there and do extensive research and gather the most important information in order to come up with my final presentation. Yes, everything has to do with what we are being asked to do/work on. On the other hand, for work purposes, I identify better with a hunter. When a work issue arises I go out there and try to find out the reason why it happened in order to find a solution for it (which involves lots of testing, creating different scenarios in order to come up with the right solution/answer).
The hunters go thru a lot more implications to find what he is looking for since there is a lot more thinking, strategies and time consumed involved. As I said earlier I believe that for school purposes I identified myself more with a gatherer instead of a hunter. I believe this is due to the reason that what we are being asked to write about is mostly already out there and we just have to discover it and put it together. I seriously think that if I would make it a point to be a hunter I might be able to find something new that hasn’t been found just yet. We all should at one point in our life try to do more hunting instead of just being gatherers, that way we could provide a little of our knowledge to future generations (that is in case we find something new).
With easy access to almost everything on the internet it’s much easier to find sources for almost any type of work we are working on. So, the main sources for my writings have come from the internet and the public libraries. Using the internet is a lot easier when it comes to research since it tends to take us directly to pages that talk about the specific topic we are searching for. When using books from the public libraries the search is more wide and it means we have to do a lot more reading in order to discover the specific information we are looking for. The information that I found I tried to combine in order to have a more solid case, some I quoted directly and referenced the book/site, other I wrote as a result of all the material that I have read (more of less what’s being referenced by Kleine on page 25 line 7, “research/writers need to collect data; then they need to sift the data rhetorically, keeping that which is relevant to audience and purpose, and throwing out that which is irrelevant; then they need to seek patterns in the data-and use those patterns to either make or confirm hypotheses; and finally they need to translate their findings into writing.”)
When writing our findings, especially if we are arguing about someone else’s findings, we have to have the knowledge of everything we are writing about, and also have the referenced material at hand in order to prove our points. As said by Greene on page 11 and 12 line 6, “Every time you write an argument, the way you position yourself will depend on three things: which previously stated arguments you share, which previously stated arguments you want to refute, and what new opinions and supporting information you are going to bring to the conversation”.
I feel that I am both a hunter and gatherer. It depends what type of paper I am writing to really see what characteristics I have. When writing a personal narrative type of paper, I lean more towards hunting. When writing a research paper I become more of a gatherer, reading critiques, evaluating the style of writing and why they chose to write like that.
ReplyDeleteWhat brought up this style of writing is just school from elementary to college. We are taught to hunt when we are young, simply given a topic, and give our experiences/thoughts on it. For example: Describe a time where you _________. There isn't really much room to gather. In high school, we move from hunting to gathering, our teachers expect us "look about widely, making sense and use of the [material we] discover..." (Wardle 25).
I remember in high school, my teacher made us choose a topic that was debatable. I chose the legalization of marijuana. He made us visit the library, choose books that related to our topic, sift through everything, and in the end, piece it together in a way to make it have a strong purpose and to affect our readers. What Andrea and Sandra say about the internet making gathering easier is so true. We can just search a topic and find the sources we need.
In the end, I feel that everyone should be taught to be both gatherer and hunter, we must “go into the world with a strong sense of purpose and direction...” while “look[ing] about widely [and] making sense” (Wardle 25).
I remember hearing of the term 'hunters and gatherers' in a history class I took back in early high school. It was a way of differentiating between the workers who left the tribe in search of food, to fight and kill animals in the wild. The gatherers were those who stayed behind, watched over the home and harvested the vegetation and resources from the immediate territory. This was the convention I held in my mind at this term.
ReplyDeleteKleine defines these terms as a hunter being the one who "must go into the world with a strong sense of purpose and direction, and employ deliberate strategies and technologies to kill his game, while a gatherer must look about widely, making sense and use of the food he discovers fortuitously." He then further simplifies this when he states "A hunter -finds- what he is looking for; a gatherer -discovers- that which might be of use."[Research Procedure pg.25]
In both my previous understanding and Kleine's system, I remain convinced that more is required of the hunter than of the gatherer, more effort.
Personally, I feel as if most of the student body is made up of gatherers. Lame ones, at that. Not the kind of gatherers Kleine speaks of, but rather a more.. lazy version. Myself included. As the article explained in the beginning, students of our generation usually have so many resources available to us, that our work is pretty much done for us. At least... we feel it is. Our only task is really to gather it all, examine it, and use the information that can best be of use to us. It's really a very simple, redundant process. As Kleine put it, we're transferring textural substance from one location(the library) to another(the teacher's briefcase).[pg.23] We are writing because we must, not because we want to. Being a gatherer is easy, there's no risk, and I feel this mindset has taken hold of society even outside of the academic environment. We must have gotten to this point over the course of time, as technology made things more and more easier for us. This mindset has leaked into how we approach writing assignments. We don't even really use the library anymore, it's so much easier to just go online. Type in a phrase or topic into Google and you're set. Pages upon pages dealing with your topic.
I'll encounter a student I feel is a hunter on rare occasions. Like in my previous Spring semester, I was in a group of students who had to design a poster for a Hispanic movement celebration. We were a three person team, and when we needed to gather information, my initial default was to go online for it. But one of our teammates pushed for us to visit the library. A 'gatherer' trait, you could say. But our visit here was not to find information on the Hispanic movement, it was to find books that showcased various posters throughout the eras. From there, she had us visit a Mexican-American studies professor during his lunch break to talk to him about the 'Chicano' movement. This was something I'd never would have considered doing, but to her it seemed like the most logical approach. She was involved, she showed dedication, and she went out and beyond the territory I'd have gone to had I been on my own. There was even a Cesar Chavez march going on during that time, and she'd suggested we attend. Interesting girl, a dedicated student, I'd say. Definitely not a Gatherer, but a true Hunter.
I feel as though I might be straying from the initial topic, but I feel when it comes to discussing how we go about approaching 'research', it all ties in, writing or not.
As an anthropology major, hunters and gathers has been the focal theme of many of my cultural and biological classes. It is a historical concept that allows us to look into the past and decipher the many components that have made us what we are today. The term “hunters and gathers” depicts mankind in a time and place where man’s only resources to investigate his surroundings was by observing his environment and gaining intelligence by trial and error within nature. The goal was to be efficient and to help the evolution of mankind to be a better kind of “itself”. In many ways, our roles as hunters and gathers is still consistent with evolution, yet it has shifted paradigms throughout time. Now our role as H & G’s in the academic world is still to observe, investigate and make our findings functional into the real world. Our means to investigate can be sought upon objectively as Max Weber did (a 19th century German sociologist). Weber was a proponent of “relative objectivity” endorsing the scientific method as a means to present the best method of research. Another method to investigate can be subjective as presented by Clifford Geertz (a 21st century American anthropologist). His idea presented that the symbolic systems of beliefs, cultures, and values are symbols and expressions of subjective understanding. As a researcher that hunts for information and facts, it is a common practice to search for the information as objective as possible from scholarly resources. When you gather the information and present it , subjectivity may play a role as it is way to express the authors opinion about the argument or debate that is presented. Greene holds this subjective view by allowing the researcher to have an opinion and defending the argument: “Every time you write an argument, the way you position yourself will depend on three things: which previously stated arguments you share, which previously stated arguments you want to refute, and what new opinions and supporting information you are going to bring to the conversation” (page 11- Greene). My whole academic career has been a pull-and-tug role as both a hunter and gatherer and finding a balance between both, which allows me to be the most efficient scholar in objective and subjective terms.
ReplyDeleteIn examining what “hunters” and gatherers” are they simply distinguish what type of student you are. A hunter is one who hunts for research and finds information obtaining the question. What you are looking for exactly is the information that supports your topic and ideas in your research paper. You begin to find sources of the information, in books for example, and using that information for your paper.
ReplyDeleteIn other hand a “gatherer” is how Kleine explains on page 25 is, “a gatherer discovers that which might be of use.” The gatherer is one who makes use of the information given or information that you discover in your research.
I see myself more of a hunter rather than a gatherer. Looking back I realize I only look for what I am asked to find from the topics I was given anytime I was asked to do. Being the reason I only hunt for school purposes is because I tend to want to finish quickly and I never analyze or strategize what I find. Resources I use for my work are finding answers in books or the Internet to the questions I was given. If I were to become a gatherer it would greatly improve the way I write and the information I research to become more professional rather than just a high school paper, for example, that only gives information. Becoming a gatherer would help me understand what I am writing and understand writing as a way of knowing what I am trying to come across. I remember last year in my English course I was given to identify an article and answering questions to what I read. It was difficult for me
A hunter is someone who finds information about what he is looking for. He is looking for specific information to better his/her paperwork. A gatherer is someone who discovers his information without actually looking for it. He discovers things that might be of use for them.
ReplyDeleteI would describe myself as being a both a hunter and a gatherer depending on the assignment. For school work I would say I work towards being a hunter. I like to find specific information that helps my critical think and how I can support what I am trying to get the reader to see in my point of view. I recently did a research paper for my Summer 1 class and I found myself looking for the answers instead of allowing the answers to come to me as I read the article.
"Hunting" for the answers helped me to finish the assignment early and then I was able to review it several times afterwards for any mistakes. By finishing the assignment early i was able to input more answers i had overlooked to help support my document. When writing a research i tend to write to help the reader understand the my point of view from the beginning and then the rest of my research will be all the information i hunted for to help support my opinion.
The difference between a hunter and a gatherer is simply put as that a hunter knows what information they need to find. They find what they need at a faster pace without really learning about the information they were looking for. As for gatherers they take their time in finding litte bits of info that tie into the main information they look for.
ReplyDeleteI see myself as being more of a gatherer than that of a hunter when it comes to school research because I sometimes have trouble knowing exactly what I need to find. Being a hunter in school would be great because of being able to gain better meaning to what you researching you might actually like it. In high school I was a gatherer through and through because I would use the interent and just search topics until I found what I was looking for, and it took longer than what it should.
Being a hunter is better when having to research in college because most stuff researched comes up in other classes and it gives you more time too organize and examine the information found.
In reponse to Laura V.'s post I agree that yeah being a gatherer you read more of the information and learn it easier, but it causes a time strain when it has a due date because finding sources takes awhile then add on having to read all of it to find what your looking for in it makes it's extremely longer.. As a hunter you can just pick out a bunch of information and then sort it out as what is relevant and what is not. All in all great post you had many good thoughts and a good experience.
ReplyDeleteWhen referring to research, “hunting” and “gathering” are two different ways of gathering information. Hunting for information refers to looking “into the world with a strong sense of purpose and direction…and finding what he/she is looking for; a gatherer discovers that which might be of use.” (Wardle pg. 25)
ReplyDeleteFrom my previous experiences I would say I am more of a gatherer. When doing a research paper I like to gather my most useful and relative information to what I am doing and come up with my final draft. I find it very easy and effective to look up information online, another thing is using databases. While in school you’ll notice that there are a lot of different ones offered on the school library website. At work I find myself to be more of a hunter. I am in retail so you have to have a lot of sense of purpose and direction to find what you are looking for. Generally you want know your customers, know your employees and treat them well.
I can recall writing my first research paper in 9th grade, it was about global warming. I was very interested in the subject (a lot of people are) being that it’s so easy to find information on it. I went online and found plenty of good websites, used one or two books and I was set! Later on, during my senior year, I ended up using the same subject and making my paper better. When I took rhetoric the first time our teacher also had us do our final project which was a website. We had to do a lot of research to come up with what she wanted in it. In the end we ended up learning a lot about the Hispanic culture and it was a great experience!
I do believe that everyone should be a bit of both at times, a hunter and a gatherer. In the end they are both the foundation to the final project, it just depends on everyone’s actions individually.
In reference to Raul, i agree with you. I believe most people from our generation are generally gatherers now-in-days because of our laziness and how easy the information we need is now supplied to us. Technology has “made things easier for us,” as you said, I think that’s why a lot of people now just procrastinate all the time. The times of having to go to the library and looking for books are gone. I find it weird when I do see people looking through books for info being that like you said we can just “google-it.”
ReplyDeleteI thought that was a great observation/point that you brought up! Needless to say, I am the same way; lazy. Bummer!
Naya brings up a great point, the idea of maintaining a balance between being a 'hunter' and being a 'gatherer'. I'd also think that a true scholar would not be strictly bound to either classification. Remaining fluid and flexible is important to be able to adapt to whatever situation is presented to the student. I also like how Naya refers to how the concept of 'hunters and gatherers' has existed in the history of mankind, as that was what I first thought of when presented with this idea,although Naya went on to expand on this in far more depth than I did.
ReplyDeleteIn the article on page 25 written by Kleine, the terms hunters and gatherers, are defined as two ways of describing how people research. Hunters are described as those you find what they need by searching for it. Gatherers are those who discover materials that might be useful for the research.
ReplyDeleteAs for me I find that I am a bit of both, however it does depend on the assignment. If a certain topic is given to me and I don’t know much about it I often take the hunting approach and go out to search for it. Take school for example. English classes always assign essays and reports to write often about an obscure topic that might have never crossed my mind. Not knowing much about a topic makes me feel the need to go “hunt” it out and find out all about it. It might be the feeling of needing to learn something new because I feel unprepared if I don’t research about it. I feel that perhaps my research might not be as well built and the facts not as greatly supported if I were to be more of a gatherer as opposed to a hunter. I think my research would be missing things and it wouldn’t be as convincing or as persuasive to the audience. It’s very much like When Green states “Seeing research as a means for advancing a conversation makes the research more real, especially if you recognize that you will need to support your claims with evidence in order to persuade readers to agree with you.” [pg.11]
Whenever I have had to do research for school I feel like I always need to constantly finding information on the topic at hand. Once I find main points and facts I want to state I then turn to my gatherer mode and try and pull information from almost anywhere to see if I could use it to support my statements.
For example, I did a report on the British involvement in WWII for a British Literature class. When I started my research I specifically sought out books and articles on WWII alone. Once I got down main points and facts I widened my spectrum of research to include the Royal Air Force, Biographies of Winston Churchill, Battle of the Bulge, prisoners of war, and many other things. Things that you don’t get a lot of information about by simply searching for WWII. I searched online, and checked out books, watched movies, and even talked to a few family members who had memories of my uncles who fought overseas.
I agree with Kleine’s conclusion on his study of hunters and gatherers. “I am left at last, with a strange contradiction: my subjects were all significantly alike- and significantly different.” [pg. 30] Everybody has a different way of researching as well as different styles and approaches to it depending on the tasks and topic at hand.
Sandra brings up a good point in having knowledge in everything you are writing about especially when challenging another persons findings. I feel that this also should tie in with Zayas point about being a good balanced researcher. Finding and discovering research about your topic using both methods will contribute to your knowledge of your topic so much more than simply using one way of researching.
ReplyDelete"A hunter finds what he is looking for; a gatherer discovers that which might be of use" (Kleine 25). This sentence divides the two in the sense that hunters know what they are looking for right away and gatherers know in a sense what they're looking for, but require more research and effort to put the end product together. In this sense, I have always been a hunter. When given a topic, I go straight away to the internet and paraphrase what I have read. I never really engulfed myself within a paper because whenever I have to write a paper the chosen topic has a semi-close deadline and is not one that I would prefer. Kleine states as his third pedagogical implication, "Rather than suggesting definite research procedures, we need to encourage students to select, intelligent and critically, research procedures relevant to their own questions and problems" (31). I couldn't agree with Kleine more. I believe I have always been like this because I have never really understood the process of research and writing. If I were more of a gatherer, which I intend to be, I would be able to gather more information that pertains to the topic as I write through the paper most likely causing a better sense of self interest in the topic.
ReplyDeleteI like these lines by Monica. "Hunting" for the answers helped me to finish the assignment early and then I was able to review it several times afterwards for any mistakes. By finishing the assignment early i was able to input more answers i had overlooked to help support my document.
ReplyDeleteI have never tried this path before and it seems like a good way to do a paper. You always need the structure in a paper, and that is what the hunting is for. The gathering would be all the little details that you found out while setting up the structure. And with those details, you were able to implement them into the paper after you were done with the structure. I like how you were a hunter at first and a gatherer once you had finished writing it all out.
I like how Andrea defends her position as a gatherer, concluding "I like to think of it more like a frame for a house. It does get covered but it forms the shape and features of the writing and gives it the support that it needs". Its a great base to identify her writing identity. Laura V does the same thing when she makes a valid point that students all have different writing styles and discover what kind of style will make you excel best.
ReplyDelete“Hunting” and “Gathering” are two different ways to get information. “A hunter must go into the world with a strong sense of purpose and direction..(pg. 25)” “While a gatherer must look about widely, making sense and use….(pg.25)” Another great way to understand the difference between a “hunter” and a “gatherer” is stated on Page. 25, “A hunter finds what he is looking for; a gatherer discovers that which might be of use.”
ReplyDeleteWith these two methods in mind, I now consider myself a “gatherer” at one point in my life I was a straight on “hunter. I used to know what I was looking for and didn’t look for anything else. As oppose to now, considering myself as a “gatherer,” I look everything into detail and I gather all of my data for any extra possible knowledge. When I was a “hunter” I was limited to my knowledge and findings, I always knew what I was looking for and I settled with what I found. I feel being a “hunter” can only take you so far when doing a research paper. As oppose to be a “gatherer” you get extra information and knowledge out of gathering.
I became a “gatherer” around my sophomore year in college, the reason so was because of a study that I needed to do for my Language and Culture class. My professor taught me to gather any useful information that may be needed for my paper. It seemed like a lot of work but I gave myself extra knowledge on the study. It was different than being a “hunter” because there was just not one answer that I was trying to find, I was open to discovering anything new.
Being a “gatherer” has changed my writing experiences in different, but good ways. It makes me able to discover new information other that just finding what I’m looking for. Provides me with great knowledge that wouldn’t have been found if I were “hunting,” and it seems to work when I’ve had papers to write.
There still are times when I go back to being a “hunter” but these are under certain circumstances. If I need to find exactly what I’m looking for without any other knowledge of anything else, then “hunting” would be a great way to complete that task. But if I needed to write a paper that I need to persuade my audience then I would definitely “gather” my information, to be well informed of.
I like what Karen had to say about being a "hunter" at work, and a "gatherer" during school hours.
ReplyDeleteShe's showing us two successful different methods used at two different times.
I also like what Zoe had to say about being taught to be a "hunter" as we are young. That's true because I was always a "hunter" being young, then being in college, I became a "gatherer"
I truly agree with Raul when he said that more effort is required of the hunter than of the gatherer – “In both my previous understanding and Kleine’s system, I remain convinced that more is required of the hunter than of the gatherer, more effort.” And this is also so true :) “Personally, I feel as if most of the student body is made up of gatherers. Lame ones, at that. Not the kind of gatherers Kleine speaks of, but rather a more ..lazy version” it is sad to admit but it is the truth and most of us will probably agree with it. Again, I think we all should make an extra effort and try to be hunters once in a while in order to contribute new findings to present and future generations. If at one point we all become gatherers there will be no more new discoveries :(
ReplyDeleteI think the difference between hunting and gathering is that people who are hunters are the ones that go beyond the extent to find things and try to do different things. A hunter described in WAW pg 25 is a hunter which finds what they are looking for and end up kill what they find, in other words. When a person refers to a gather their first thoughts can be that they are a people that wait for someone to speak to gather their information but, as described in WAW pg 25 a gatherer discovers that which might be of use.
ReplyDeleteI think I am both a hunter and a gatherer because when it comes to student life I like to learn different ways to do things than doing it as the way the teacher teaches us. In addition, I like doing things different than following things as we are told to do. Also, I think I would be a gatherer in real life because I like to learn from other peoples mistakes so I won’t do them. for example, I like learning from peoples mistakes because once you are told what happens when you do certain things ill actually think twice before doing them. I think if I was a gatherer than a hunter in my student life I wouldn’t make as many mistakes as I do as a hunter but also I like making mistakes because I get to learn from them and I get to start doing it all over again.
My past experiences would be from my past class this summer which was philosophy. In that class we had to do a presentation on a weak and a strong argument and also we had to find examples on the. The source we used was mainly the internet although it took two days to find the perfect video to show in our presentation. Our presentation was very helpful in our final exam and paper because what we went over in the presentation was describing the weak and strong arguments.
I like the way Merilyn. V mentions how a gatherer is to her in real life besides just in student life. Students are different when it comes to learning in school and learning in the real world. Sometimes with school and real life situations we would do things differently from one another when we are at school and when we are not.
ReplyDeleteTo me the difference between hunting and gathering can be more described on page 25. Klein refers to research/writing as having four stages and being both epistemology and rhetoric. After reading this I have concluded to agree with his statement. Epistemic means you collect data and you seek a pattern, Rhetorical means you sift data and then translate the knowledge or findings.
ReplyDeleteThe book definition for hunter is (finds) and for gatherer (discovers)it seems to me that when we are researching to write a paper we do both but I think it just depends how much of both in order to get a good quality paper.
I hunt and gather information for school papers but depending on the subject I can analyze it more if it's something I know well and are interested. For example a presentation or research on accounting laws as opposed to Shakespeare'.
The best way for my research papers has to be online. It is quick and efficient to look up information in large quantities. Not only that it can be easily printed instead of coping information from a book. The internet has definitely become a major role in our every day lives.
I agree with Sandra in that she mentions that "everything has to do with what we are asked to do". As I mentioned before it's what interests us and what knowledge we have of the subject that will enable us to be a rhetoric writer.
ReplyDeleteLike many of my peers, I consider myself also a bit of both. For me I try several things in order to get the information I need for a specific project. I Hunt for reading material that is relevent to the subject and I also gather all that I can so I can narrow down the most useful information. In WOW pg. 25 Klein writes about gatheres and the reason for being a getherer or a hunter is for survival. The difference is that a Hunter knows exactly what they are hunting for and a gatherer takes what they can get. I use several sources when researching which include the internet, and library books on the subject. Bibliography books are very easy to find in libraries when writing a paper on a specific person.
ReplyDeleteI love these definitions: "When writing brief overviews on topics that don't go into a lot of specifics, information hunting is more useful while gathering is more useful when comparing, contrasting and discussing topics." -Andrea
ReplyDeletePersonally, I identify with the hunter more than the gatherer. I tend to know exactly what I want to look for and will be determined to look for it until it is found. If I have limited time and resources, then I definitely resolve to being a gatherer, but it is more difficult for me to create things out of supplies I am given than finding what I had in mind. I just enjoy finding what I search for and it is always more meaningful to me when I have invested time looking for it. I would probably waste a lot less time if I took a gatherer approach to research. I spend so much time looking for resources that have exactly what I want to learn about, I hardly have enough time to write well.