Cassie Lagner- Research

When I hear the word research, honestly I do not get a happy feeling. I dislike research paper strongly. I do not know if I am just not good at them or the thought of writing that much freaks me out but I am not a fan. But when people do research usually it is to get more information about a topic that is confusing or they just simply do not know much about. Research is usually for writing papers or even (out of the classroom) just to have the basic knowledge or details about something. At least the people I know research for a school assignment or for something they are interested in. According to Alison C. White in “Research Starts With Answers” she says research has a three-stage process. This includes “seeking information that is new to the researcher, interpreting, evaluating, and organizing that information, and reporting the information to others to affect some action”. I felt I needed to include that in this blog because my research process, when I need to do research, is very similar to this. I like to find out new things about the information presented, then I evaluate it to use, then I report it which usually consist of putting it into some kind of presentation or paper. Researchers use different methods because they use whatever is best for them when they are looking into something they want to learn. My research methods contradict the thoughts of White because I have really only used the library or the internet to look up what i needed to look up. The thing about research that is confusing to me if that I don’t know if I am looking up the right things or if I am gaining the right things for the paper I need to write. I think that is why In fear research papers so much because of the fact that I don’t know exactly what I need to be researching or if it is the right content for what is needed in the guidelines of what I am writing or presenting about.