FEbruary 27th homework

Summary
In their article"Reading and Writing without Authority," Ann M. Penrose and Cheryl Geisler argue that younger students don't write with authority and older people do because they need to gain more knowledge. They did a study on two people, a freshmen english student and a philosophy doctorate student.  Both people wrote about the same topic, paternity and then the two papers were looked at to see who wrote with more authority. In the end the conclusion was that as people get older they did write with more authority.
QD:
3. Janet most likely had to use a lot of different sources to get information for the paper because she was just a freshmen and didn't have as much knowledge about the subject of the paper. Rodger being a older student and more educated probably did not have to do as much research about the subject as Janet would need to do.
4. Me being a freshman student I know that when I am doing research for a paper I believe what most of the information that I read when doing research says so I would guess that is the same case with Janet when writing her paper. Most freshmen students would rather trust what research is saying rather than make up their own things to say.
5. I know that my writing is more like Janets because I am also a freshmen and do not have much information on the things that I write about. I hold more of a information-transfer model of knowledge and do a lot of researching before I write my paper to get ideas of what to say and learn about the topic.
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This should help me next time I go to write a paper because of my writing style and the amount of confidence I have in my writing. Knowing that I need to have more confidence in order to make my papers better is something that I will try to do in order to improve my writing.
Reflection
This article was interesting to see Janets and Rodgers writing compared and the outcomes that the researchers came up with. This compares to my own experiences because I can relate to the way the Janet writes. I agree with the conclusion that the researchers came up with because it makes sense that the older more educated person would have more background and produce more information.