I think that this may be the most difficult part, but I feel that compounding on previous evidence will help push the point home of how big this issue really is. If I can make the person feel a personal connection with how the paper had already played out, I'm already certain that they will realize deep in themselves the problem that has been laid out before them their entire lives. Clutter affects everyone, and it does not discriminate. We all experience it and we have cultures built around fighting it.
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From my literature review, I can effectively make the statement that Common Clutter is a real, and approachable problem. It can be systematically affected with the evidence I have laid out in the Review. First, recognizing the problem. This can be seen in my case studies and my interviews. People are affected by this. It is also supported by studies that clutter is a natural part of the human nature to incur. Unhappiness with your surroundings. The action part comes in first with awareness. How to we let people know that this is a real problem affecting them and not just them being lazy or life is getting our of their hands. Next, the important part, is letting the person know the first steps to fighting clutter. What steps can they take emotionally and physically to prepare make a change in their life.
I feel as though this portion is very self explanatory. You make sure you assess your material and that you present it in the most clear and concise manner possible. I have already done this as I have worked, or at least I think so. It would be a great boon to see how other people may agree but when it comes to research accounts, I will share only the relevant parts and information to the audience instead of blindly sharing the whole paper. On the other hand, I will share in a more storied setting my examinations and interviews with professionals.
I definitely want to get to the core of people here, why do they experience clutter. If I can first relate to them, and then show them how Common Clutter is a problem, then I feel confident in the rest of the introduction. I feel that a great starting point in accomplishing this showing off my more personal sources, the people I've seen and have been involved with in their own journey of clutter. I can then starting bringing in the facts, my other studies, and other things once people have been engaged with the personal aspect of this story. It is going to take some rhetoric that appeals to people's emotions.
It is a great fallacy for people to confuse writing to be purely talent. Yes, there are those to whom writing may come more naturally and these can be for any number of reasons, but the majority of writers, and yes even the good ones will need years of practice and work to know how to learn how to write to their greatest potential. Writing is a skill like any other and one can learn more about from many different sources. It may not always be realized in which direction or where that source may have come from, but just reading as many different materials and being in a peer reviewed situation can teach you so much.
As hard as I might try, images will always skew my thoughts on a piece or in a conversation one way or another. That's the power of what we see and how we use our vision. Most of the time it isn't conscious. I see a happy image with a happy article, I'll think the the article is speaking truth upon happiness which it might completely not be doing. Other times I know that the article is trying to manipulate me with images, and it pushes me harder to think about the situation at hand and what is being spoken about.
If I were to make my own similar article, yes I would try to use images to influence what the audience was thinking about but I would try to be honest to my subject and use it only to enhance the experience and the audience's understanding of the situation. My primary source would have to be a scientific research that somehow relates to my CRQ and proposes validity to it. I need hard facts from some sort of database that does some sort of research that I can apply to my work. I just feel like I won’t be taken seriously unless I deliver on serious, hard evidence on something worth relating. And then I have to find that path of relation back to my central research question.
There is this book I would love to use to be a secondary source, or maybe better yet, the material a specific person uses; Marie Kondo. She invented the KonMari method of handling clutter and I think she would be an invaluable resource for myself to educate myself on this topic.
I think digging online would be the best way to collect my sources. If there were anything more I would have to do I’m sure I would do it. I would love to interview someone who was working for the client-based side of this business and see how they handle things. Hard scientific evidence would be great as I feel like the angle I am taking is hard to be taken seriously so I would like it if I had some basis to show what I am talking about. Official documents and interviews seem like the best primary sources for me to use on my CRQ. I think my CRQ is going to require a lot of open-ended and opinionated answers from professionals in the field and research conducted needs to directly address the other aspects of my CRQ.
I would definitely begin with databases from any that are available to me. From there I would use the internet to find as many primary sources that I could but I’m more interested in finding people I can interview which I am not entirely sure of how to do that yet. Because I feel like my CRQ is so under-researched, I feel like any sources or perspective would be helpful to me at this point, and I think a lot of my work will just be framing the conversation in a way that we begin to truly seriously consider the ramifications of studying Common Clutter. When I first heard of the term “research” when I began this class, I already knew that whatever form it would take, it would be difficult, in-depth, and intense. So my actual impression was that I would do whatever my research required of me, whether it be to go out and find a person to interview, or to conduct a consensus which just sounds impossible for me to do alone.
Research is not always about proof. That’s probably a big takeaway for me because I’m not sure if I’ve ever thought of research that way. In my mind it was always about finding evidence of something to show to the audience, but a lot of it can just be background information that frames what is being discussed. |
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