Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Blog #5
My sophomore year in high school I was a assigned a personal research project in which i just the subject of airplanes. The beginning of this research was very easy, since my Dad is a pilot, he answered most all of my initial questions. So my initial research was interview based. Simply "hey dad, how long did it take to get your pilots license?" When I narrowed my topic to become a commercial pilot, this brought out some much more complicated questions that my Dad could not answer. My initial deep research started with internet, which did not get me very far. All of my number based question had inconsistent answers on the internet. Which pushed to libraries to look for aviation books. My questions were all fact and number based. Personally I do not enjoy opinionated research. Honestly, it is because I struggle with getting thoughts on to paper; and keeping bias out of my own research. Looking back i would still enjoy that research today. My fascination for anything that flies still exists. Which mainly goes back to my father and growing up around aviation.
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I also have been surrounded by aviation since I was a little kid. My dad was always fascinated by planes, and I grew up playing with remote control planes and seeing my dad's model collection. It still amazes me the technology planes have today and how fast the commercial aviation industry has grown over the past fifty years. While opinionated research can be difficult, it can be easier if you have a controversial topic to write about on your subject. Discussing your stance how you would in a debate on this topic will definitely ease the writing process of your research project.
ReplyDeleteI had a similar experience, where I was assigned a research paper on my father's occupation, architecture. I actually also went through the exact same process, as my dad was able to answer general questions about architecture, but when I got down to, "How many years is the average architecture internship?" was not something he could tell me. I also struggled with the statistics, so I turned to government sites to get the facts.
ReplyDeleteIt is great that you know how to do interview research for a piece. First hand information is always the most interesting and accurate. As a reader, I would definitely be intrigued by a piece with good quotes. It makes me feel like I’m there experiencing a little part of it myself. That will help you a lot with the article assignment we have to do because a lot of well written articles have good interview quotes from people that have impacted whatever topic you may be writing about. I think the fact that you were interested in the topic prior to writing the piece is a good start because interest causes deeper research. Not just for you, but anyone. Although one may not start off as interested in a topic, they can get interested as they do more research but since you were interested in the topic from the start, it probably let the words flow better from the beginning. I know for me, I always look up something that I’m curious about or question so writing all these thoughts down to make a paper for you was definitely a plus for your piece.
ReplyDeleteResearching things that you like is a great way to make the process of writing a long research paper go faster. There are many reasons why it goes faster. For example, you often have many more resources at hand for you to use, like you had with your father and even websites that you frequent because of your passion for airplanes. As a result researching topics that you enjoy will inspire you to write a more thorough paper.
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