{"id":72,"date":"2017-04-06T18:23:59","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T18:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/hudsondougan\/?p=72"},"modified":"2017-05-04T09:30:01","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T09:30:01","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/hudsondougan\/2017\/04\/06\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Honest Reflection on my Research Shortcomings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My research process is typically somewhat of a mess, but, to be fair, it used to be much worse&#8230; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I used to find and ultimately choose certain quotes or examples that were short and sounded like they summed up the source completely. Often times, though, the quotes didn&#8217;t really represent the greater reading because I often didn&#8217;t read the source completely.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/L20E2bh3ntSCc\/giphy.gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"220\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">From Giphy<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Terrible strategy, trust me, I know.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, after so many mediocre grades on research based essays and projects, I decided to switch up my strategy once and for all. It&#8217;s not perfect now, I\u2019m fully aware of that and the fact that there&#8217;s always a lot of progress to be made, but, this is what I&#8217;ve learned so far, what I know for certain:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Read through the sources available or read through summaries of the sources to find out which ones would be relevant.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">These sources are often very surface level and won\u2019t be the ones you will use in the actual essay <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Compile all sources and start reading through them. Begin to pull quotes and write summaries for each of the sources. <\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I typically look for primary sources, but as the BEAM article states, this term encompasses something much broader than I previously knew.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Find an order to place my sources in and then use them to write the essay.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This isn\u2019t a genius strategy, but more of a lazy one where I often don\u2019t know what order things should be in so I make one up.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>This is my basic research strategy, and after learning about BEAM, I\u2019ve come to realize different types of research\/articles flesh out different types of arguments.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I never had really put much time or effort into how the different articles and pieces of research I discovered would fit into different categories. I think that it&#8217;s something that could really deepen my research and arguments that I make in research essays.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cohesiveness and how an essay flows is extremely important and I think my lack of attention to this tool has hurt my writing in the past. Often I throw things down on the page and that\u2019s never a good strategy for crafting a good essay.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My research process is typically somewhat of a mess, but, to be fair, it used to be much worse&#8230; I used to find and ultimately choose certain quotes or examples that were short and sounded like they summed up the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/hudsondougan\/2017\/04\/06\/research\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1914,"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-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"gutentor_comment":0,"qubely_featured_image_url":null,"qubely_author":{"display_name":"hdougan","author_link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/hudsondougan\/author\/hdougan\/"},"qubely_comment":0,"qubely_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/hudsondougan\/category\/uncategorized\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Uncategorized<\/a>","qubely_excerpt":"My research process is typically somewhat of a mess, but, to be fair, it used to be much worse&#8230; I used to find and ultimately choose certain quotes or examples that were short and sounded like they summed up the &hellip; Continue reading &rarr;","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/hudsondougan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/hudsondougan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/hudsondougan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/hudsondougan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1914"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/hudsondougan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/hudsondougan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/hudsondougan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/hudsondougan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/hudsondougan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/hudsondougan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}