Monday, September 22, 2008
Procrastination
How do you even begin to encourage people to become involved sooner? Whether it be at work or in my online class, people don't like to be involved and that in turn inhibits me from becoming involved and then I don't get out of the class what I think I should. How do you begin to make it more interesting and get people to want to become involved sooner? Any recommendations or ideas?
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What do I want to get out of this English class, is a question that my professor had asked me. I actualy am currently getting more than I thought out of it. The definition of research has become more apparent by being more general and broad. Through the discussions that we have been having through the D2L site at UWM, it has made me realize that research can be about anything. From what kind of car to buy for the best price to what is the best treatment in order to get the best results in less time with less side effects for a certain disease process. I honestly before now never really considered checking out prices for cars, airfare, restaurants research, or just at least never crossed my mind in that manner. Another hope to get out of it, is what do I want to research for this class. Right now, I have no idea!!!! Kind of a concern for me! When do we actually start working on that particular project?
I hear what you are saying Jeremy, but I wonder if adding the word "academic" or "college" to research changes the meaning. After all, English 102 is called "College writing and Research" and uses the term academic in the official course description to define the work of the class.
With this in mind, can academic/college research be done on any topic? My knee-jerk response is that it can but that the results will be really different. That is to say, if I did academic research about cars, I might produce very different writing than if I did "consumer" research on cars.
Anyway, thanks for thinking about my questions and for experimenting with this blog. I hope it is going well for you.
I would have to say yes, that research even if it is "academic" research can be done on any topic. When you look at "academic" research versus "consumer" research, your academic research is going to be a bit more detailed and lengthy than the latter. I would think that the results would be quite different because the outcome and purpose for them are quite different. With academic research you have to assume that people that have no idea where your thought process started and where it was going, is going to read it. Where consumer research might be used to inform the general public but possibly not. Ahh, I just thought about that comment now, consumer research is a general term as is academic. Consumer could mean the individual doing the research or it could mean the general public. So if it were the gerneral public, it would need to be more detailed. Why would your "academic" research on cars be different than "consumer" research on cars?
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