Roberto Vargas
rvargas1@swarthmore.edu
"A deceptively modest name for a complex technology that has come to play an evidentiary role in scholarship”
"The search terms I have chosen encode a tacit hypothesis...and I feel my hypothesis is confirmed when I get enough hits.”
- Ted Underwood, Theorizing Research Practices We Forgot to Theorize Twenty Years Ago
(waropen OR austronesian) AND language* AND phonolo*
A phonological sketch of Waropen
(waropen OR austronesian) AND language* AND phonolo*
A phonological sketch of Waropen
(waropen OR austronesian) AND language* AND phonolo*
Concept 1 | Concept 2 | Concept 3 |
---|---|---|
- Waropen -Austronesian |
-Language |
-Phonology -"Speech Sounds" |
(waropen OR austronesian) AND language* AND (phonolo* OR "speech sounds")
BACKGROUND
EXHIBIT
ARGUMENT
METHOD
Exhibit (Evidence)
Background
Materials used to establish facts. When used as background, you take them as fact and do not question them. If you do, they will become part of your argument. Implies membership in a community based on shared references
The materials to be analyzed, examined or interpreted
Argument (Authority, Antagonist)
Sources you engage with or respond to directly by countering, extending or refining the claims made. You engage in conversation. They-Say....
Method (Model)
Sources from which you borrow an approach, key concept, idea, or method, or sources after which you model your own approach to inquiry, writing, or argument.
Roberto Vargas rvargas1@swarthmore.edu 610-957-6107
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