Exercise 1.5

Research proposals are important success for a research project. Exercise 1.5 instructs to make a research proposal. Here is mine: 1. Inquiry Question: Does the military help or hurt? 2. Primary Purpose: The primary purpose of this project is to discover if the organization in charge of projecting us are causing good and helping us or are they causing more harm than good. 3. What opinions/previous experiences to bring to the project: I think that the military is necessary due to the natural evil mankind has. My dad was in the Army National Guard, one of my grandfathers was in the Marines and another was in the Navy, and one of my uncles was in the Marines.

Exercise 1.1

Exercise 1.1 Step 1: Under each category make brainstorm a list of words that come to mind when you think about the topic. Places: home, school, park, street, Ireland, restaurant, sidewalk, bike path, driveway, woods, skate park. Trends: long hair, short hair, clothes, shoes, fashion, music, language. Habits: biting finger nails, biting lip, sucking thumb, scratching your head, slouching, maintaining eye contact, saying um in your sentences, posture. History: battles, world war 2, world war 1, civil war, Rosa Parks, separate but equal, the holocaust, Nazi, Joseph Stalin. Step 2: Chose a word from each list that seems promising. Places: Ireland Trends: clothes Habits: posture History: battles Step 3:Make a list of questions that you would like to explore about the topics. Places: Ireland: how did Ireland originate? What are some Irish traditions?, What is some Irish folklore?, How is Irish culture similar to American culture? Trends: clothes: How have clothes changed through out the years? Have clothes gotten more revealing? Why has the style of clothing changed? Habits: posture: Does posture show a persons personality? Does bad posture show you don't care? Does posture help or hurt peoples impressions of you? Why is posture so important? History: battles: What is the importance of battles? Are battles always bad or can good come out of them? Can battles change how a country is run?

Exercise 1

In class we are going through a book called The Curious Researcher. This book is a guide to writing research papers. In this blog I will be going through the exercises assigned. Exercise 1 Step One: Chose one statement the you believe is true or one that is false. Write fast for three minuets without stopping about the belief. Belief: You can use your own writing voice. I think that when you are writing you should use your own writing voice because you need to be unique and set your self apart. I think that you can do this and still be a great writer, different isn't always bad. Being yourself can never hurt you. If you are yourself around people know matter who they are then people will respect you more. Same way in your writing. Step Two:Chose another statement and do another three minuet fastwrite. Statement: Pretty much everything you read in textbooks is true. I think that this statement is false but true at the same time. I think that it can be false because information is constantly becoming out dated and so text books would not be necessarily true to the time. Also I think that depending on your belief system then some information won't be true to your viewpoint. Like if you don't believe in evolution and a textbook talks about it then the textbook would not be true. I think that is is true at the same time because if the information is up to date then the majority of the textbook will be true.