I really do not think that I could say it any better than Jennifer said it when she said, "A research paper is a research paper; regardless, and it’s going to suck." To me research papers are the worst possible thing assignment that a teacher can assign. They really make me want to cry.
The main reason for this is that the topics that the assign with the paper are usually so boring. I don’t want to offend anyone but who in the world cares what Ernest Hemingway was trying to say when he wrote all of his stories. That was probably the worst paper that I had to write in high school.
Now I am not saying that if a teacher said that I could write a research paper on what ever I wanted to, I would be really excited about it but I would be a whole lot happier about writing it than if it was on something that I had absolutely no interest in.
It is really funny because if you ask almost any student if they like research papers you are going to get same answer from all of them and that is NO!!!!
So now my question… Are we going to have to write a really boring research paper or do we at least get to pick the topic?
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This is pretty much my opinion of research papers also. I have to admit though, Ballenger had a good argument. That's assuming that the way he said we are allowed to write our paper is acceptable. I’m pretty skeptical most of the time, so I’m thinking he might be a load of crap and agree with your blog. But I would prefer that he has some validity and that I won’t want to cry trying to meet the page requirement. I guess we’ll find out. I’m pretty sure we get to pick the topic which makes writing and enjoying it a lot easier on our parts.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you. I don’t think I have ever been a assigned a research topic and actually been okay writing about it. I forgot about what Jennifer said about research papers and that is a really great way to put it. I still don’t think that a topic I picked would make me super happy about writing a research paper, like you said, but it would still be a lot better than an assigned topic. I also agree with what you said that it is a pretty wide known fact that if you asked any student about their thoughts on a research paper they would say that they sucked.
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