Thursday, April 8, 2010

Ch. 7&8 quiz definitional vs. fact research

My Core 4 research does fall into both definition and fact. One of my sources was done as an experiment over the course of 16 months with low income adults this research falls into the fact category because it deals with specific facts that they found in this experiment. According to the book Everything’s an argument “Arguments of fact do much of the heavy lifting in our world. Some of them do the important task of reporting on what has been recently discovered or become known.”In this source title Instructional Set and Internet Use by Low-Income Adults, It dealt with the attitudes and internet skills found in the time period based on 2 groups one that was given the internet’s communication tools and the other group was given the internet’s information skills. Although this source doesn’t contain exact statistics it does contain valuable facts found. As far as all of my other research it does not deal with fact but yet the definition and opinions. According to the book Everything’s an argument it states that “Definitional arguments don’t just appear out of the blue; they evolve out of the occasions and conversations of daily life, both public and private.” In my other research they discuss mostly the reasons behind why the older generations don’t want to learn computers and none of their examples are backed up with fact although they seem like common sense and to be true I would still place them in the definitional category solely on the fact that it seems like opinion and conversational. As well as my other research sites that deal with the solutions to the digital divide they are not discussing what is proven to work but merely stating what might work and the programs available.

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