{"id":416,"date":"2017-06-11T21:45:57","date_gmt":"2017-06-11T21:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/cgong\/?p=416"},"modified":"2017-06-11T22:16:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-11T22:16:42","slug":"final-thoughts-on-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/cgong\/2017\/06\/11\/final-thoughts-on-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Thoughts on Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Research isn&#8217;t so bad after all.<\/strong>\u00a0Before I took my critical thinking and writing class, I would dread the very thought of research.\u00a0But now, I see myself conducting research in everything I do. From the simple act of reading a text to formulating arguments, I have conducted some form of research along the way.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Of all of the articles I have read,<\/strong> I particularly found\u00a0Klein&#8217;s article, &#8220;What Is It We Do When We Write Articles Like This One\u2014and How Can We Get Students to Join Us?&#8221; the most interesting and applicable in my own research methods.<\/p>\n<p>Through his article, I have found his idea of &#8220;hunter and gatherers&#8221; the most profound and applicable since\u00a0everyone can be categorized into one or the other, or both.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Hunters<\/strong>\u2014seek information and persist to find exactly what they need<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gatherers<\/strong>\u2014work with information presented to them\u2014sort of like a sponge<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>I have reflected over this past quarter<\/strong> and determined that I am a hunter. When I write outlines for arguments or drafts for papers, I always go and seek the information since\u00a0it probably exists somewhere.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/churchplantmedia-cms\/first_free_minneapolis\/seeking.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"298\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstfreechurch.org\/blog\/post\/sincerely-seeking\">Source<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>I know I am definitely not a gatherer because of how determined I can get to find one piece of information. It may take my 20 to 30 minutes for me to find the perfect quote or statistic to back up my argument.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.tenor.com\/images\/1f768c70b3fdb51968a86eb9fc3175f0\/tenor.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"132\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tenor.com\/search\/work-hard-gifs\">Source<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Thinking back towards the beginning of the quarter, I remember when\u00a0I was researching in SCU&#8217;s archives, I sought out information about school sports. I specified what I needed down to SCU&#8217;s football team which is fairly specific given all of the other athletic teams I could have chosen.<\/p>\n<p>The way I researched for arguments and information for SCU&#8217;s football team\u00a0is much like the game of &#8220;Where&#8217;s Waldo?&#8221; While I honestly do find the\u00a0<em>Where&#8217;s Waldo<\/em> books more interesting\u2014I will not give up a single page without having found Waldo\u2014both researching SCU school sports and these books are almost too similar. I won&#8217;t give up my topic unless I completely fail at finding what I need, but in most cases I do, it just takes forever.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/m.popkey.co\/05d0ad\/dWV74.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/popkey.co\/m\/dWV74-spaceballs-nervous-uh-oh-scared-what-did-i\">Source<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>I do see some troubles in the future for myself though.<\/strong> For example,\u00a0if I am given a novel in which I have all the information already gathered, I\u00a0may find it hard to choose between all of the pieces of information. I wish Klein went into detail about how to choose the most appropriate evidence or how to decide between different pieces of gathered information.<\/p>\n<p>Sure there may not be one answer or one method to this problem, I still wished Klein provided some support for me since taking gathered information is not my strength.<\/p>\n<p>I guess, in the future, I still have a bit of work to do in regards to how I conduct my research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research isn&#8217;t so bad after all.\u00a0Before I took my critical thinking and writing class, I would dread the very thought of research.\u00a0But now, I see myself conducting research in everything I do. From the simple act of reading a text &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/cgong\/2017\/06\/11\/final-thoughts-on-research\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1918,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"qubely_global_settings":"","qubely_interactions":"","kk_blocks_editor_width":"","_kiokenblocks_attr":"","_kiokenblocks_dimensions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"gutentor_comment":0,"qubely_featured_image_url":null,"qubely_author":{"display_name":"cgong","author_link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/cgong\/author\/cgong\/"},"qubely_comment":0,"qubely_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/cgong\/category\/uncategorized\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Uncategorized<\/a>","qubely_excerpt":"Research isn&#8217;t so bad after all.\u00a0Before I took my critical thinking and writing class, I would dread the very thought of research.\u00a0But now, I see myself conducting research in everything I do. 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