Blog 3

The most confusing part of paraphrasing “The Corleone Chronicles” is trying to get it to fit into a part of my journal. The article was very hard to understand for me, and paraphrasing something I didn’t understand to start with was very hard. My reading skills aren’t the sharpest, so the podcast was obviously much easier for me to comprehend. I think the focus is on academic writing because it forces students to work harder, to find credible sources and to paraphrase it on their own. Yes, I dislike it more but it does make us students’ work much harder; which is what we pay for. Yes, I believe that it will help us when doing research for our arguments and debates so we will be better prepared and more knowledgeable.

I reread my journal and then thought back to a part in “The Corleone Chronicles” that I felt best related to the major topic of my journal. The passage I chose to paraphrase summarized exactly what I was trying to describe as originality. No, I felt it matched perfect to my views. No, I did not think of incorporating The Godfather into my journal until this exercise. Previously I had just used art, music, and dance as examples. The article didn’t really make me rethink anything; it just helped me to put my thoughts into better words.

When I do this paraphrasing process again, I will be thinking of ways to paraphrase and incorporate what ever prompt into our most recent writing; instead of doing the entire process right when it is due.

Blog 2

I researched why the subgenre of romance appears in nearly every movie, specifically in the action genre. I wanted to research this for two main reasons, curiosity and annoyance of every movie virtually ending the same way. So far, all that I have gotten from my research it so girls will watch these movies and to create connections with the audience.

I had to word my question many different ways to get any information to start with. Each time I reworded it; I would get a piece of new information to use. Yes, many differences. The topics I usually research, the answer comes up on the first try. With this prompt, there is no “actual” answer, and the reasoning can be very unclear. It seemed that every time I reworded or changed my question, I would get a completely different answer. I had to eventually just go with what I felt was the strongest reasoning. All of my research was done on the Internet, so I would get a wide variety of possible answers and reasons.

To me, academic research is the process of finding credible sources and information to put into a academic piece of work. I have learned that it is way more difficult than I imagined. This is completely opposite from my self-directed research. When I do research on my own, I do not care where it is from or who has said it; as long as more than one person has said it then I believe it to be true in most cases.

Why Love Story?

1)    What is a question about film and genre that interests you?

Why does every movie have some love story in it?

2)    Why is this question important to you? Why is it worth your study? What personal beliefs does it make you consider?

Because every movie has one and I want to know why. And I’m sure other people do too. Love and happiness.

3)    Do you have any prior assumptions about how this genre operates or about the values that the genre elevates? Explain your beliefs.

The question isn’t a specific genre? But that love and happiness are very important to life.

4)    What do you hope to learn in terms of relationships and observations of the genre and related films? You might want to throw out some examples here.

Why do all they films have this in them? Even action movies do.

5)    What are some issues that you anticipate may be problematic in the collection of data or in analyzing the genre or film?

Details of why may be hard to find.

6)    Think about the time periods of the genre, whether the genre or your films belong to the studio system period or after, consider the audience of the genre, and brainstorm the sub-genres that evolved from the mother genre. What new ideas do these considerations tell you about the genre? What new angles do you see?

My question isn’t about genre so I’m not sure how to answer this…

7)    Where do you hope to take this paper? What do you hope to learn?

I want to make a point that not all movies have to have a love story to be good… I want to know why they think that.

8)    Who do you think would find your study interesting, in addition to me? Why?

Males, because we don’t care about all the mushy stuff.

9)    Where do you think you will find the best sources to answer this question?

I honestly have no clue…

10) If your topic had a face, what would be its expression? Why?

Puzzled, because I want to know why all movies have somewhat of a love story.