Blog Assignment #7

For this assignment, considering my books were quite big and had a lot of information in them, I looked at the abstract version of the books to figure out what each section of the book was about. Additionally, I skimmed the chapters until I found a good source of information that I could use in my paper, or to what I thought would be useful for my paper. I didn't exactly use all the information I noted, but the information helped. If I would have had more time, I would have read each chapter throughly, however, I feel that the way I did it was great too. It allowed me to just get the main points I needed.
I got kind of excited to explore other sources beyond Nye's book. I thought it was great to learn more and understand more about the information Nye talked about in his novel. Once I picked out a good quote or picked out good source information, I tried to think about questions I had about the information Nye provided. Since I thought that Nye provided the abstract version of the issues discussed about technology, I wanted to try to get as many questions as possible out of his information so I'd know what to look for in the other source's information.
As far as the peer editing goes, I thought the person was very helpful. I liked what they said and liked the ideas they had. It made me think more about my paper and understand what I needed to change and/or fix in my paper. The only two problems I had with the peer editing was that I only got one comment and that I also like to hear the teacher's comments before I turn the final in.
Lastly, I think writing these papers is somewhat difficult. In terms of a research paper, I think they are really fun and interesting because you gain a lot of information out of them that you hadn't known previous, but I think the actual writing part of them is very hard. I am so used to writing regular papers that just involve my thoughts and feelings to the information I talk about in addition to the factual information given throughout the paper. I think I'm really kind of struggling with this though because I don't know whats good or bad about my research papers or what I'm doing right or what I should be doing. I've writen a few research papers in the past (high school) but feel like my information or the things I write about isn't good enough. I like how Nye does it and how he uses sources throughout his novel. That's great, but I feel like I'm still struggling a little bit with my research paper(s) in comparison to Nye's research information. As said before, I really like research papers and think they are fun because you learn so much and it's actually fun to do the research part. The only problem for me though is that it's harder than I thought and nobody likes to struggle. Getting the information is fun, but then having to put it down on paper and into your own words is the difficult part.