Chapter 5 review
This chapter was a nice review about what I learned in high school when it came to making a research paper. It says to start off figuring out what your interested in by talking to people and doing a little pre-research. This can even be checking out some wikipedia pages, to not source but get the main concepts of a lot of different topic ideas.
In high school we had to do an EE (extended essay) which was a 4000 word essay my junior year. For this assignment I had multiple meetings with my English teacher to ensure that I liked the topic I was writing about and went to the library to check out if sources were easy to get for said topic.
One of the concerns with a research topic are the amount of sources you will be able to find for a topic. That is one thing I will have to consider when writing my paper for this class. Since we need the peer reviewed journals I will have to make sure that my topic has been long enough for the journals to actually be published.
I have started utilizing some of this information for our next project, hopefully it will be good.
In high school we had to do an EE (extended essay) which was a 4000 word essay my junior year. For this assignment I had multiple meetings with my English teacher to ensure that I liked the topic I was writing about and went to the library to check out if sources were easy to get for said topic.
One of the concerns with a research topic are the amount of sources you will be able to find for a topic. That is one thing I will have to consider when writing my paper for this class. Since we need the peer reviewed journals I will have to make sure that my topic has been long enough for the journals to actually be published.
I have started utilizing some of this information for our next project, hopefully it will be good.
I really liked your blog post. I agree that this chapter really acted as a review. I like that this chapter was good for reference. I haven't done an research essay in a while and this chapter really helped relearn the writing process. Nice post.
ReplyDeleteI agree that making sure there are not only good sources but enough of them to be able to full research the topic is critical to coming up with a question. You could have a great question and be fully committed to it just to find out there is not enough research about the topic. I'm going to make sure I some prior research before i fully develop my question.
ReplyDeleteI also had to write an extended essay in high school and I agree that at times finding sources that really go with what you're talking about is tough especially if you need multiple. I'm happy we went to the lab the other day , I feel that it will make finding good and reliable sources far easier.This chapter was also a review for me but I did find some of the tips they talked about useful.
ReplyDeleteI agree that this was a good review and that this chapter was good as a point of reference for our upcoming project. I thought I was pretty good at research but this chapter gave me some new ideas for out project to make my process even better.
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