"Building a Mystery" is a research paper as well as a personal essay that tries to show how research papers lack in certain areas.  In this essay the authors agrue that research writing has to much of a template, and that it is not helping the writer understand what a research paper should contain. I found it very interesting how they composed a research paper about research papers in general. It made it much more interesting for me to be able to look at it from their point of view and be able to finally relieze that research papers do not all need to follow the same format.  I think this way can overall help students to become more free in their research papers and help them to write about something that they are passionate about instead of writing accroding to a certain template.

The author's do a good job of showing what research papers are not doing in writing today.  Many research papers do not let the writer be free in what they would like to write about.  You cannot force someone to become instantly in love with a certain topic, and I think the author's felt this way when they composed this essay.  The writer needs to have a certain additude toward that topic to become an effective research paper.  The author's of this essay were very passionate about this topic and it showed because they could form their own ideas about what they thought. 

In conclusion, this essay was very effective because the author's were able to be free in their own ideas, and write about something that actually meant something to them instead of simply being told to write about a certain topic.  I found this essay to be very enjoyable to read, and it gave me new insight when I go about writing my next paper.

Assignment 1 part 2

The first thing I noticed about this essay was how the author incoorporated many different strategies to prove his point.  He compared multiple different facts, and observations that he had which helped him to distiguish what the problem was, or if there even was a problem in the first place.  He analyized all of the different possiblities to find the option that he found most appropriate.  All of these strategies enhanced his writing and made it easy for the reader to follow, and to relate to.  His use of analysis gets the reader to think about the different possiblities, and make there own decisions on what they believe to be true.