As I sit here trying to type out this annotated bibliography, my mind is wandering further and further away from the initial task I am supposed to tending to. In my head I think, I have three sources, it is time to write this bibliography, and describe why or how it helped me. But I can’t help but think about how the question I am imposing in general in just too specific. I cannot even finish annotating the first one without thinking, “how on earth an I going to find 3 more???”
“Don’t panic, don’t panic,”
To prevent myself from slipping into a minor panic mode (where I know nothing will get done) I have resorted to writing this blog on yet another episode of the great research excursion. So here I am coming to you live, and in person, as I read these articles and try to read and analyze them without freaking out over not having enough sources.
Okay so not going to lie, these sources are not the most invigorating things you every did lay eyes on. There each have mile long titles, too much text (in my opinion, not at all trying to be offensive), and no pictures. Granted, I knew this was coming because it is called a scholarly article and after all I did find it in a database, not Google.
Within a few of my sources, I am finding a few thing’s Kantz identifies as “gaps” aka “discrepancies of values, social conventions, language, or any other matter that readers must consider” (77). Throughout my resources, it has been difficult to find any sort of gaps due to the fact that most of my pieces I am discovering are descriptions of cafeteria layouts… Therefore there are no social conventions or language I can identify and see distance within.
Me trying to find resources like
Due to the fact that most of my sources are not at all what I imagined them to be, I have made an attempt to further create my research space by establishing my territory. By not only gathering articles, but making topic generalizations on the articles I have read, I have been able to identify that the sources I have found unfortunately are not at all what I thought they were. This helped me to further clarify for me that I wanted my research to be more about the community a dining hall fosters, not necessarily improvements people are making to cafeterias to make them look more visually appealing.
More updates to come in the following episode. Fingers crossed I find some quality sources.
♥ Little Kelli