The Painful Process

After reading Ballenger’s introduction I think this piece is going to be full of crap. I’m going to have to agree with Sam on this one, that a research paper is a research paper. There is no fun in writing them; it’s a long painful process that is just going to happen because it has to, not because it’s interesting. That’s just my opinion though. I don’t really understand where Ballenger is coming from- the difference between a research report and a research paper. To me it’s all the same. It’s a lot of time in the library and online looking up and refuting or agreeing with things that have already been in so many other research papers before. In high school I wasn’t really required to write many research papers. There was one particular one my senior year that I hated doing. We had to read a book that we got to choose out of a reading list. I picked The Kite Runner. While I loved the book, we were required to write a ten page research paper on one question that we created about something pertaining to the facts in the book. I’m not really sure if I just didn’t do a good job picking my question or what, but I completed the paper and ended up getting a really good grade on it, I just hated the process to get there. If I could write about anything I would probably have to pick something pertaining to dance. Dance is something that I love doing and it interests me, even when it’s just on paper. There is so much stuff that I still don’t know about it, but I would love to find out!

My question is one thing I’m kind of confused about; what is the easiest way to incorporate your own opinion in a paper without paraphrasing what you researching?