When we put in the word Project in, it seems to take a whole different meaning. This is not are everyday tasks of Googling, looking for a book in the library, or asking a friend to see what the lunch special at the cafeteria is. A research project has to have a theme, an argument, a question which we are trying to answer.<\/p>\n
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Research is a process. (Source<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n In college, I have been assigned many papers, some as short as 2 pages and as long as 10. I have made presentations, created discussion material, and cooperated in group projects to pitch a proposal. But have any of these been research projects? My answer is NO<\/strong><\/span>. In the papers, I of course did some research, looking for quotes to cite and material to use as reference for my argument. For presentations, I looked at data and used graphs to visually appeal to my audience. In any case, it never was a research project, it was only surface level research so I could make my assignment more complete.<\/p>\n I think we can agree on our hatred for group projects<\/a>…always enough people but never enough minds at work.<\/p><\/div>\n So maybe I never have even done a Research Proj<\/strong>ect.<\/strong> Maybe my report on solar panels in space which I did in high school would count, since I dug up all different kinds of papers and studies to argue that such a mode of electricity generation was needed. But then again, if I haven’t even done a research project in college (on my standards), maybe that should not count. I didn’t find anything new by research: I was just confirming my ideas. Anyway, true research is a new concept for me, something I must learn from the basics.<\/p>\n For me, my project may well be research itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After writing my previous blog post, I started to wonder…when was the last time I actually did research? Everyday I use Google on my phone to check what the weather is or what a Spanish word would translate into English, … Continue reading
![group projects<\/a>…always enough people but never enough minds at work.<\/p><\/div>\nSo maybe I never have even done a Research Proj<\/strong>ect.<\/strong> Maybe my report on solar panels in space which I did in high school would count, since I dug up all different kinds of papers and studies to argue that such a mode of electricity generation was needed. But then again, if I haven’t even done a research project in college (on my standards), maybe that should not count. I didn’t find anything new by research: I was just confirming my ideas. Anyway, true research is a new concept for me, something I must learn from the basics.<\/p>\nFor me, my project may well be research itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After writing my previous blog post, I started to wonder…when was the last time I actually did research? Everyday I use Google on my phone to check what the weather is or what a Spanish word would translate into English, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1921,"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-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"gutentor_comment":0,"qubely_featured_image_url":null,"qubely_author":{"display_name":"JJ","author_link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/author\/jburwell\/"},"qubely_comment":0,"qubely_category":"Uncategorized<\/a>","qubely_excerpt":"After writing my previous blog post, I started to wonder…when was the last time I actually did research? Everyday I use Google on my phone to check what the weather is or what a Spanish word would translate into English, … Continue reading →","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1921"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/b\/bc\/Wikimania_2016_-_Learn_to_use_Pywikibot_for_Wikidata_and_other_projects_05.jpg\/1280px-Wikimania_2016_-_Learn_to_use_Pywikibot_for_Wikidata_and_other_projects_05.jpg\"){kind=link}