Chapter 1, section 1.1 Chapter 20 Skill 20.1

Chapter 1 Section 1.1
This section is all about coming up a problem and how that ties into a thesis. There are a lot of things in this part about how college writing will require strong problems and strong thesis statements. The most important part of this section is the first table which is titled How Writers Become Gripped By a Problem. It has three columns: Occasion that leads to your posing a problem, examples, and your interior mental state. The overall message I get from this is that we are to pose the problem ourselves. The problem may be something other people have spoken of or know a lot about but when we pose the problem, we are making it our own issue that we are exploring for our own reason or for specific reasons. The final column, Your Interior Mental State, is essentially how your mind reacts to the problem itself, and that process is what makes a similar problem so absolutely varied and individual to each person because no two people have the exact same reactive thought to a problem, leaving a new variation of the problem for you to explore.
Chapter 20 Skill 20.1
This section is about arguing your thesis in response to a research question, which they explain as using your thesis to create an argument for your problem, which in research papers are the main use for a thesis. They next go over Documentation, which is using in-text- citations and bibliographies to allow readers to follow along with your research, since writing an entire research paper by yourself is difficult so it helps to have all sorts of sources and pieces of information that can fill the holes in your paper and your research. Lastly they go over Formulating a Research Question, which is quite important considering that's what we are doing in class right now and what I need the most help with. now, this is different than forming a thesis or coming up with a topic. A research Question is the catalyst that sparks your thesis and the rhetoric and goal of the paper itself.