Archive for January 2010
Blog # 2
I have chosen my topic to be about a country called Colombia, which is where I am originally from. The reason why I chose this is because I would like to learn more about the good and the bad things of it, as I hope to share my knowledge with others. Bottom line is that I would like my research to be a discovery of all the good things Colombia has to offer. This topic is important to me because that is the country where I was born, and I feel like many people do not see the good in it, they just see all the bad things and stop there. I know that I can bring a lot to this research and since I constantly go back I can have some inside information that most people wouldn’t. I haven’t yet decided on my research question, I am still having problems phrasing it, since I don’t want to make it to broad but I will like to include everything that I want to research. I think that the best way to show my research would be through a multimedia video in which I can show pictures and describe in detail my findings.
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Blog # 1: What is Research Writing? What does it mean to be a research writer? How are research questions developed?
The article above talks about research writing in the way that people perceive to be. Not everyone find research writing to be their cup of tea, however the article in a sense doesn’t make it seem so bad. The link above talks about research papers as more than just papers full of different sources of information, but rather papers that analyze a given topic. The article goes even further to discuss the different types of research papers: Analytical and Argument of a point. For both types it gives a brief description of how both of them should be done and what each of them entails
In my opinion research writing is having a question about something and answering by doing research about the topic. In some cases however, research writing could also be a form of trying to prove a point by researching it evidence that proves that specific point. A research writer is someone who looks deeper about a topic than most people would in order to find new information to either prove a point or to answer a given question. However I deeply believe that research writers have to be extremely interested in the subject they are researching. If for some reason they are not interested in the subject, the writing would be dull and it might also lack content. I believe that research questions are developed by looking into what motivates the writer, what inspires the writer, or something as simple as what is the writer curious about knowing more about.
My goal on this research class is to develop a research paper that both displays my personality and what I am interested in along with completely explaining my findings as a researcher. I think that the way to achieve my goal would be to leave behind my bad habits of procrastinating. My approach is simply going to be to start researching as much as I can early on in order to get a head start and find out more about my topic. As far as what my interests are, there are many, I just to choose something that other can also find interesting that way others can also learn from my research.
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