In Margaret Kantz article, "Helping Students Use Textual Sources Persuasively," she attempts to explain to teachers how to help students use texts such as encyclopedias or even dictionaries to issue the facts, and understand.  She argues that a student must not only read, but interpret the writing. 
     Kantz talks about a college sophomore named Shirley, and why she is having such a difficult time on writing a textual paper.  She had taken ideas from different authors and used all the ones with the same facts.  Margaret explains in the writing how Shirley's friend Alice tells her the difference of the two sources she used and why she should have mentioned and discussed the issues between the two books she read on the battle.  There was a French and a British.  Alice explains to Shirley how much their teacher would have loved to see Shirley compare and contrast the two books with opposing sides, and to come up with her own story or the opinions she had made reading the articles. 

SUMMARY BETWEEN TWO DIFFERENT WRITINGS
     John Swales' article and Margaret Kantz articles have almost the same idea.  Swales is trying to explain how to write the research papers, and Kantz is trying to help the students to learn to organize and interpret the ideas and facts received from reading the different versions. 

BEFORE YOU READ
How I define the terms;
fact - something that can be observed, or proven to be true.
claim - something you suggest to be accurate.
opinion - someone's ideas or thoughts on a certain topic
argument - a way to persuade a person to thinking you are correct

QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION AND JOURNAL PG. 85
1) Margaret Kantz believes facts, opinions, and arguments are based off of ideas you make by reading textual sources.  You receive facts from the sources, construct your own personal ideas, and an argument within yourself and the reading.
2) She believes they misunderstand or don't comprehend, because they read the articles as stories, expect it to be the truth, and don't read source texts as arguments.  I agree that some students read texts as stories, but I believe it makes the textual sources easier to read as story based rather than factual.  Nobody thinks reading from a text book is exciting, but if you look at it in the story form it may become much easier to want to read and understand.

APPLYING AND EXPLORING IDEAS PG. 85
2) Kantz and my relationship between creativity and research are very much the same after reading her article.  She has persuaded me to agree on the idea that students misunderstand their readings and don't completely grasp the concept.  The only thing I have disagreed on her article is the way she feels about writing information that has been gathered is not the same as persuasive writing.  I believe as long as you clearly get your point across whether fact or opinion it could become very persuasive. 

META MOMENT
Kantz is trying to explain how students might have had difficulties gathering and interpreting information.  She encourages for teachers to read rhetorically to better understand between the authors and readers. 


     Margaret Kantz article was a huge eye-opener.  She made me realize my own faults in writing from two different authors, but not discussing the actual argument at hand.  When I write a paper, I will now look for the argument I could construct between two different points of view.  Not only will I compose the argument from other authors, but I will include my own argument and chose what I agree with more, and explain the reason of why I would side with one side over another.