Chapter 5 - Kelly Barnes
Chapter 5 - Kelly Barnes
This chapter examined the process that accompanies the task of trying to find a topic to research. It begins with brainstorming topics, listing out topics, researching, coming up with potential questions, and narrowing down your options until you essentially choose your research question. All of the information in this chapter I already had a basic understanding of from high school - group together a list of topics you are interested in and narrow it down from there. Have an interesting topic, have reliable sources, all of the basics I was already taught in the past. However, I even thought to research the potential topics before narrowing them down. Maybe it's just because I tend to be lazy, but I always just picked the topic that intrigued me the most and never even researched the other topics a little bit further than what was necessary. This is definitely a tactic I can adopt to improve my research tactics for future papers.
I agree that this whole passage was just a reiteration of skills taught in high school. But for me I always start off with multiple topics so I don't get disappointed when one of them doesn't work out, so no favorites.
ReplyDeleteI feel the same way about how this was just a rehash of high school taught information. None of it really seemed too advanced or new to me either.
ReplyDeleteI have a similar approach to finding a topic. Researching all topics vs choosing the one you like the most is usually determined by how interested I am in the topic. If I find a great opportunity to do a paper on a topic that has been interesting me, I will disregard all other possible topics and stick with it, regardless of how easily the topic can be researched.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what you say about knowing these skills from high school, even though I have never written a research paper. I also pick the topic that I know the most about.
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