What is a scholarly conversation?

[0:08]It's this idea that when a person writes, they are actually, whether or not they know it, or whether or not they mean to, they are actually entering into a conversation with other writers that have also written on this topic. Different scholars will write, you know, about the same topic, but they'll come up with slightly different findings. You know, one person might say X about something, one person might say Y, and a scholarly conversation is kind of about what those two scholars have in common, where they differ, and putting that together in a way that makes sense for a different reader. So that they can hear, well, this is the point that scholar, this scholar makes, this is the point that another scholar makes. And even though they might seem really different at first, they're not because of this. When you're engaging with all these sources, you know, you are another voice, and you know, maybe your voice is like, I'm just talking about something else, or maybe your voice is saying like, I'm going to pull all these people together and, you know, make a new meaning out of that. The conversation occurs when you try to start reconciling the different, um, the different views that different sources may or may not have. One of the really fun things as a researcher is to go through and really find the different ways people have talked about this particular topic and sort of try to figure out where they intersect, where do they not intersect?