It's OK To Ask Questions

It’s OK To Ask Questions

The process of Planning and Proposing Research Arguments begins with the act of asking questions.

Chapter 4 specifically looks at persuasive images, such as propaganda posters to get it’s point across to the reader. According Christine Alfano and Alyssa J. O’Brian, “Figure 4.2 shows World War One propaganda in the form of a poster.” This one poster alone has a huge amount of detail for historical analysis. When analyzing this poster for the first time, it is true that everyone would notice something different. For example, in this historical poster, maybe you read the text first, or maybe the Giant Gorilla holding a woman. The first question I asked myself was if it was King Kong. It looks like the scene where King Kong takes the woman and tries to find safety in New York City after he is brought over from Skull Island. Like the book says, to make sure you have to research and see. If researched, you would see that this poster was made decades before the first King Kong film was released. “By asking questions about your text, you can move beyond an initial response and into the realm of intellectual discovery.” (Alfano, O’Brian, pg 106).

When generating topics and research questions, you need to make your own research questions that will ultimately lead to your final argument. When writing a research project, you need to make it your own. Powerful research questions are the key to making a research project your own. The question that sticks out to me when I look at something such as a complex poster is, What is the Purpose?

- Sam Bennett Ch 4 Envision Journal