On 4/7/08, WJhonson@aol.com WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 4/7/2008 5:27:04 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
ritzman@gmail.com writes:
Would the phrase "all research is original" be a simple way of stating the above?>>
No. When I go to the library and read the newspaper I am not doing original research. I am doing source-based research. They are not the same thing.
Original research means I am *creating* the statements of fact, not that I'm looking them up in another source.
So "all research" is not "original" since people use the word "research" to cover looking things up in other sources.
I wasn't trying to argue that it was. I was asking if the phrase "all research is original" summed up the following paragraph in the original post.
"Indeed, the opposite is increasingly widely accepted. One of the major composition texts these days is called _Everything's an Argument_, and makes the case, essentially, that one cannot organize information without advancing an argument. Research is always an interpretive and synthetic process, and any presentation of research advances a position."