Give here your rolling analysis of Chapter 6, on "Engaging Sources" of The Craft of Research. Researchers sometimes refer to practices described here as "interrogating your sources," going well beyond a surface reading of sources, and asking critical, analytical questions of them. Some researchers also talk of "putting sources into [metaphorical] 'conversation' with each other"--of testing sources against each other. In this chapter, are some of the ways of "reading" sources that the authors recommend? How might you apply these principles and practices in your own research in this course, or how--perhaps, even without realizing it--have you done so already?
As you read with care, chapters 7 and 8 of The Craft of Research, analyze these chapters here. What do the authors mean by "arguments," what do they mean by "claims," and what do they take to be the proper relationship, logically, between "arguments and claims?" Finally, how might appreciating these categories and distinctions strengthen your own conceptualization of your ongoing research in this course?
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