Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Bluh Papers
I still think research papers suck. I think its because of the amount of research papers I had to write throughout my entire educational career. I just don’t like how they are on a set topic and always have set rules, I always find it so much harder to write as much as I need to because I am so unmotivated. Honestly, if I could write about anything it would be about myself. Like the crots were writing are based on stuff that has happened to us or that is important to us and everything seems to be coming very easily to me. So I would rather there be a paper with a prompt that has something I can relate to or about a personal story so that I can write more about it and give better details. I feel like research papers involve so much work and end up still being super boring. But if I absolutely had to do real research on something I would want it to be something that I didn’t have to like learn everything about it and something that was easy to understand. Like if I had to research certain medical stuff I just don’t know that I would be able to understand it all and I think it would stress me out even more. I guess my question would be, if you aren’t assigned a topic, and you get to pick what you want to do research on, how do you find something that you can stay interested in throughout the paper? I mean I get the whole “pick something you’re interested in” thing but there just isn’t really anything that I am dyinggg to learn about.
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That's it. Unmotivated. That word describes how I usually feel about research papers. There are so many restrictions and guidelines to follow that you feel like you are doing the assignment for someone else rather than yourself. Therefore, there is no motivation to give it your all. You feel as if you should only do enough to get by with an A. When you think about, you don’t get paper and pencil or sit at a computer and type pages of something you are interested in. Personally, I automatically pick and learn something that I’m interested in because all my focus is on the subject when it is presented in front of me. After that, I continue to expose myself to the subject and my knowledge of it becomes greater.
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