On 4/6/08, Philip Sandifer snowspinner@gmail.com wrote:
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.
Would the phrase "all research is original" be a simple way of stating the above?