Purpose: A Look at Angle of Vision

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Purpose A Look at Angle of Vision

• Angle of Vision Writing to Inform Persuade
• Step 1- Research
• Generating a Question of Interest
• Finding Relevant Material
• Sorting through Material
• Step 2 - Organizing Information Found
• Annotated Bibliography
• Step 3 Refining Research
• Sharpening Ones Angle of Vision Based on Found
  Information

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Angle of Vision

• as perception (1) The angle of vision, lens,
  or filter determines what part of a topic gets
  seen and what remains unseen, what gets
  included or excludedwhat gets emphasized or
  de-emphasized (AB 52).

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Angle of Vision Continued

• Angle of Vision Informs How You Approach Your
  Research
• purpose will be to inform and persuade, in
  general, the common public about some aspect of
  your field of study
• This purpose will influence the type of question
  you pose for research.
• The question you pose for research will exclude
  some details about the topic while emphasizing
  others.

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Step 1 Research

• A QUESTION OF INTEREST
• Connect with your envisioned audience What kind
  of topic would be interesting to them? Would
  this topic easily generate different views?
• Locate a Specific Conversation Based on your
  question, search for answers. You may not have a
  specific way of seeing the topic, yet, but the
  information you read will influence the
  perspective you will form. As your perspective
  develops, search for new articles that speak to
  or continue to inform the topic you have
  designated through the question posed.

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Step 1 Research

• FINDING RELEVANT INFORMATION
• Become a master at searching
• http//www.lib.purdue.edu
• from this website, click CORE, login
  anonymously, and then click Keyword Search in
  the upper right-hand corner of the screen)
• Key word searches and verses or
• nesting, using parentheses
• searching for terms using
  quotation marks

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Step 1 Research

• SORTING THROUGH MATERIAL
• Choose ONLY the information that responds, in
  some way, to your question. The article may
  prioritize another issue, but if something in the
  article responds to your questionand you can
  easily see this connectionthe article will be
  useful.
• Choose reputable or credible information (consult
  your readings).

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Step 2 Organizing Information Found

• The annotated bibliography helps you to keep your
  sources separate and know what each says in a
  word.
• Annotated bibliographies are helpful to
  researchers, in general, because they reflect a
  specific conversation, and scholars can use the
  annotated bibliography to expedite their research
  process
• What is the annotated bibliography? It is an
  alphabetical list (citations) of sources followed
  by brief summaries of those sources

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Step 3 Refining Research

• As information is found, one can think about how
  the conversation is focusing (perception).
• A perspective can be formed.
• New information can be found to complete that
  perspective.
• Angle of vision is now ones stance or
  perspective, based on critical thought about the
  information found. You will develop this
  perspective in an essay.
• proposal created presents this perspective. You
  are on your way to the research paper!

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The End

• English Composition 106
• Fall Semester 2006
• Philathia Bolton, instructor