How Research Is Formalized Buriosity: Zora Neale Hurston

“Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.” This quote by Zora Neale-Hurston gives people a different viewpoint on the idea of researching in general. However, it focuses on how research is not just an abstract concept and specifically how it should be done. The first part of the quote describes what research is, here formalized curiosity, and the second part deals with how one should conduct research, here searching for a specific something or purpose. Zora Neale Hurston did, in fact, research with purpose. She wrote a variety of folk tales and wrote about the struggles of African Americans and women during the 1920s in the period now known as the Harlem Renaissance. Zora took information based on her experience, research, and the real-world struggles at the time to produce the most accurate and purposeful literature. Just like the themes of her books, Zora nor her literature were not popularized until the 1970s, but still gave meaning to the new negro movement and the equality of all.
In a synthesis essay, six or seven sources are needed to create one essay. The prompt would be equivalent to the “purpose” and the sources would be the “research” that is already provided. The sources included with the prompt are all related to one subject. Most recently the class was confronted with the issue of daylight savings time and whether it should be continued. There were six sources: five written articles and one graph. Each of these sources appealed to a different aspect of DST that one must synthesize to form a point of view in their