College Seminar II
Ottawa University Online
Professor Hanridge
March 20, 2013 Introduction
When writing a research for college papers, it will take a lot of reading of material found in multiple places. The challenges that a researcher will face is finding accurate material for their research. I will attempt to explain what my challenge will be researching.
My Experience Writing Research Papers
This class will be a challenge, because I have not written research papers since I was in high school, which was more than 20 years ago. But I do have to say that I like challenges, so it will be fun re-learning how to research and write the results of my find.
I believe that my strength is that I have been writing technical documents and I know about writing instructional, but the weakness is that I do not know how to write a research paper. I will have to do more research on writing research in order to pass this class.
When reading the Big 6 steps, I believe that the most important of the Big 6 is Step 1: Consider Your Readers, because if you cannot capture the audience than your research will not matter if no one wants to read it. In Step 2: Select a Role I believe that all roles should play a part in writing a paper that draws the interest for the reader. When using Step 3: Generate Potential Research Questions will be easy for me. I will have a lot of questions because I also have Diabetes. I will be writing for me as well as an audience. Step 4: Select a Preliminary Research Question would be unique because I have a question that I would like answered. Step 5: Narrow the Scope of Your Research Question, I like the way Megan questions were to the point. These are some of the questions, which I have for my research. I of course have a couple more, but these are the main ones when asking questions about Diabetes. Step 6: Refine Your Preliminary Research Question through Searches, the
References: The Bedford Research Room Retrieved from: http://www.bedfordstmartins.com