Just in case you didn’t know the Arizona Cardinals WON Sunday 32-25 and now the cardinals are going to the SUPERBOWL!!!!!! Once again if you all want to buy me a ticket you would be my best friend.
But getting back on topic. I HATE RESEARCH PAPERS. There are so MANY RULES you have to follow. The bibliography and work cited are the worst. I mean, I know we are suppose to give the original author’s credit. But you’d think you would just have to put the author’s name and the title of the source. But no some person who came up with this MLA format decided everyone should suffer. They decided to force us into adding the publishers, the date it was published, the city it was published in and the year it was published all in a jumbled order with spaces and commas and periods and slashes. Oh yeah, and if you don’t do it right you’re plagiarizing. You have no freedoms in research papers. All of the research papers I have written have been about things I don’t care to research. Students never get to research what they want. So when I am writing I always have to stretch to make word counts or page limits and it is always mind numbing. I figure research papers are built on the idea that you want to further your knowledge in something. But when teachers tell you, you have to do a topic on poets or Shakespeare plays. It gets tough for me to do these papers because it is something that is not interesting to me but something that is interesting/important to the teacher. In research papers I want to research and I want to further my knowledge in something I feel is interesting/important. Maybe it will help the reader learn something rather then a stale, boring stretch to meet the word count, paper that helps no one.
If I had it my way I would research stuff I am interested in like music or sports. Maybe research the history of the Arizona Cardinals (which I already have a base knowledge of but could dig deeper they have a 110 year history). Or maybe teams that are considered “Cursed” or history of an instrument or a band.
Ms. O’Malley can I research the Arizona Cardinals? Please, please, please! It would be a really good paper!
But getting back on topic. I HATE RESEARCH PAPERS. There are so MANY RULES you have to follow. The bibliography and work cited are the worst. I mean, I know we are suppose to give the original author’s credit. But you’d think you would just have to put the author’s name and the title of the source. But no some person who came up with this MLA format decided everyone should suffer. They decided to force us into adding the publishers, the date it was published, the city it was published in and the year it was published all in a jumbled order with spaces and commas and periods and slashes. Oh yeah, and if you don’t do it right you’re plagiarizing. You have no freedoms in research papers. All of the research papers I have written have been about things I don’t care to research. Students never get to research what they want. So when I am writing I always have to stretch to make word counts or page limits and it is always mind numbing. I figure research papers are built on the idea that you want to further your knowledge in something. But when teachers tell you, you have to do a topic on poets or Shakespeare plays. It gets tough for me to do these papers because it is something that is not interesting to me but something that is interesting/important to the teacher. In research papers I want to research and I want to further my knowledge in something I feel is interesting/important. Maybe it will help the reader learn something rather then a stale, boring stretch to meet the word count, paper that helps no one.
If I had it my way I would research stuff I am interested in like music or sports. Maybe research the history of the Arizona Cardinals (which I already have a base knowledge of but could dig deeper they have a 110 year history). Or maybe teams that are considered “Cursed” or history of an instrument or a band.
Ms. O’Malley can I research the Arizona Cardinals? Please, please, please! It would be a really good paper!
Posts
definitely agree with you. When I was writing my blog I was mainly focusing on the topics that we don't get to pick and don't want anything to do with. I didn't even think about the how you have to cite your sources. That is probably the worst part of research papers. I never know what to do and it always seems like it takes me forever to look up all of my sources. Also I know exactly what you mean about trying to stretch your paper to meet the word count. I end up repeating myself because I don’t know what else to talk about.
ReplyDelete