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.