Ballenger Article

I really enjoyed reading the Ballenger article for this week. I am currently in a photography class, so it was very interesting to see a connection between photography and English. In the photography class I am taking, we are required to shoot a roll of film every week, and it is very true that your first instinct is to take one shot of each subject you pick out. Through that class alone I have learned to look at different subjects from different angles, so I was able to really relate to this article. The part of the article that stuck out to me the most was on page 29 where he said that “Researchers who never narrow their subjects produce drafts that are a lot like blurry landscape shots. While they manage to cover a lot of territory, the reader never gets a good look at anything.” He goes on to say how the paper will lack detail, and will be hard to figure out what most important about the paper. Reading this article helped me to decide which of my three narrowed topics I will most likely use for my research paper.