Assignment 3

Byrson is an Author that uses a untraditional approach to his reasearch writing.  He is very informative and also uses a great deal of detail to make his argument known.

I think Byrson's approach as an author does work in our alternative approach to research writing.  He sets up his essay with alot of information, and he has a great use of inquiry throughout his entire essay, which I think is how you relate to the certain topic that you are addressing.  I think he has a great use of inquiry because he focuses everything back to his own life, and his own beliefs.  He writes, "We are so used to having a lot of comfort in our lives-to being clean, warm, and well fed-that we forget how recent most of that is." He admits to not knowing much about how things used to be but then he researched and found facts that he included to show that even though he was not very knowledgable in that topic that he could go on to compare life today to life then, and what happened to make the lives we have now possible.
  I like the way he would almost tell a story, and then at the end relate everything together to show what he thought of everything as a whole.  He did this a few times throughout his essay, the first being the house, and the second being the kitchen.  I think this overall approach is very rich in inquiry because you are relating everything back to yourself, and showing the differences and what had to happen for how life is today. 
His approach is a great example of the Alternative way of writing research because he does not follow any guideline.  He simply tells what he knows, tells what he found, and then relates both of them together into one big idea.  I found this essay to be very effective, and I enjoyed it very much.