What have you learned from doing this blog? About the research process? The
writing process? About your inquiry question? About yourself?
I have learned to put my thoughts down in paragraph format. It has helped me organize my research and my questions. The blog's questions helped me focus on what to write about and what to search for. The blog changed my inquiry question a few times. It had made me realized that I don't like blogging. In blog, there isn't much to write about for me.
Monday, February 27, 2012
Saturday, February 18, 2012
3rd Blog-Viewpoints
Who will YOU be writing to? Can you decipher yet who will make up your
audience, even in broad terms?
I been thinking about it from my list of annotated bibs. It will mostly be for people between teens and 30s age range. Most of the articles are based on that range. I might narrow it down to college students.
Do you have a better understanding now of why your topic is timely, or how you can make it timely? Explain.
My topic is mainly about depression. Cases of depression have increased over the years. Over 100 millions are affected with depression in 2011. It's a serious psychological condition that can severely affect a person's life.
Why are you invested in this topic? (In other words, why do you care about it?) Why do you think (many of our) high school teachers instructed you to write objectively without any sort of personal investment in your writing? Why do college teachers suddenly care that you care about what you're doing?
Well, my high school teachers mostly instructed me to write on relating the topic with me. I'm usually allow to write about topics that I'm interested in. I just invest in my topic because it seems interesting. That's all the reason I need for me.
Are you starting to see multiple viewpoints emerge in your research? Can you list them here?
Yes, I have seen different viewpoints.
-Unlike my topic of depression's effect on phyical health. Another viewpoint is how phyical activity affects depression.
-How depression affects patients with heart problems?
-How depression affects a person's sleep quality?
Tell us about one new and interesting thing you've learned about your topic this week. What have you learned about the process of researching?
I learned that if you stop your daily exercise or phyical activity, the risk of developing depression becomes 4 times higher in the two following years. Researching is a pain because it's difficult to find exactly what I want about my topic and have it from a legit source.
Read and respond to at least one other student's blog.
I commented on Mike Rankin 2nd blog.
I been thinking about it from my list of annotated bibs. It will mostly be for people between teens and 30s age range. Most of the articles are based on that range. I might narrow it down to college students.
Do you have a better understanding now of why your topic is timely, or how you can make it timely? Explain.
My topic is mainly about depression. Cases of depression have increased over the years. Over 100 millions are affected with depression in 2011. It's a serious psychological condition that can severely affect a person's life.
Why are you invested in this topic? (In other words, why do you care about it?) Why do you think (many of our) high school teachers instructed you to write objectively without any sort of personal investment in your writing? Why do college teachers suddenly care that you care about what you're doing?
Well, my high school teachers mostly instructed me to write on relating the topic with me. I'm usually allow to write about topics that I'm interested in. I just invest in my topic because it seems interesting. That's all the reason I need for me.
Are you starting to see multiple viewpoints emerge in your research? Can you list them here?
Yes, I have seen different viewpoints.
-Unlike my topic of depression's effect on phyical health. Another viewpoint is how phyical activity affects depression.
-How depression affects patients with heart problems?
-How depression affects a person's sleep quality?
Tell us about one new and interesting thing you've learned about your topic this week. What have you learned about the process of researching?
I learned that if you stop your daily exercise or phyical activity, the risk of developing depression becomes 4 times higher in the two following years. Researching is a pain because it's difficult to find exactly what I want about my topic and have it from a legit source.
Read and respond to at least one other student's blog.
I commented on Mike Rankin 2nd blog.
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Stress or Depression?
What type of source is it? What's the title, and who is the author? Why is it
interesting? Give us a brief summary of the source, in 5-6 sentences.
As you've been researching, has your topic changed? Have you revised your inquiry question?
The source is an article. The title is "Mental Health Problems in Childhood and Adolescence" by Tim McDougall. It's somewhat interesting, but there are too many standpoints for my topic that I can't focus on one. I might change it to "How (stress or depression) affects the physical health?" The article told of problems with mental health result in more than just poor physical health. It includes poor educational attainment, family dysfunction, crimes, antisocial, and etc. Emotional mental problems are increasing and widespread across the world. It states the statistics of mental health illnesses in England. The articles includes a table for the risk factors that cause mental disorders.
How will narrowing your scope affect your research -and the eventual writing you'll do about this topic? What challenges are you facing in your research? How might you address these challenges?
Narrowing my scope allows me to focus one specific topic to write about on my research. In my research, the challenges are "Is the source reliable?", "Is this too few information?", and "Is there enough information to avoid changing to a different topics?".
As you've been researching, has your topic changed? Have you revised your inquiry question?
The source is an article. The title is "Mental Health Problems in Childhood and Adolescence" by Tim McDougall. It's somewhat interesting, but there are too many standpoints for my topic that I can't focus on one. I might change it to "How (stress or depression) affects the physical health?" The article told of problems with mental health result in more than just poor physical health. It includes poor educational attainment, family dysfunction, crimes, antisocial, and etc. Emotional mental problems are increasing and widespread across the world. It states the statistics of mental health illnesses in England. The articles includes a table for the risk factors that cause mental disorders.
How will narrowing your scope affect your research -and the eventual writing you'll do about this topic? What challenges are you facing in your research? How might you address these challenges?
Narrowing my scope allows me to focus one specific topic to write about on my research. In my research, the challenges are "Is the source reliable?", "Is this too few information?", and "Is there enough information to avoid changing to a different topics?".
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Post One for ENGL 1102
-What is your research question/inquiry question?
The basic topic is either emotional mental health or stress (it depends on how much more resources I can find on the subjects). How will emotional causes(depression, negative self-esteem)affect a person's mindset? What cause these emotional effects? (These question can be apply to stress as well.)
-Why did you settle on this question? What interests you about the topic? Explain.
I was research for something along the line of mental health. I just found emotional mental health as a subset. If it can't find much resources on emotional health, then I just focus on a common topic of stress. The psychological process of a human being is what interested me into this topic because it's either mental or machinery (which I can't relate to health) that I am interested in writing about.
-How is your question/topic timely? Why is it important to address this topic? Why should people care about it?
My topic is for when students are easily affected by their emotions without aware of the consequences. the topic will allows them to be aware of their mindset, and how it affects their works. People can care about it if they are interested in it. No one will care for something he/she isn't interested about.
-What do you expect to find in your research? What preliminary research have you done that makes you expect this?
Positive and negative effects of emotions on people's lifestyles and works. An article, "Mental health problems in childhood and adolescence", stated the emotional problems causing the outcomes on people throughout their life.
-Are you coming across scholars w/ different answers to your question, or different views of your topic? (If you're NOT and people seem to all agree, then your research question and topic probably aren't worth pursuing, right?) Explain what these answers/views are that you are finding. (Remember that our textbook warns us of the dangers of binary thinking on pg. 6.)What do you think about the different viewpoints? Where do you stand on the issue, and do you think your mind could change the further you get into this semester-long inquiry?
I am somewhat seeing my topic in different views.
How these emotional situations might positively affect people? How to prevent major consequences from these problems? Is it possible to ignore it like most people with only minor consequences? Can you change these problems to create positive outcomes?
The viewpoints can be useful for stating more information about my topic than just focusing on the topic's basic questions. I like this topic and think I can find some positive outcomes on emotional situation, but I might change topic as I get further into this assignment. I can't be sure that I will find what I want.
The basic topic is either emotional mental health or stress (it depends on how much more resources I can find on the subjects). How will emotional causes(depression, negative self-esteem)affect a person's mindset? What cause these emotional effects? (These question can be apply to stress as well.)
-Why did you settle on this question? What interests you about the topic? Explain.
I was research for something along the line of mental health. I just found emotional mental health as a subset. If it can't find much resources on emotional health, then I just focus on a common topic of stress. The psychological process of a human being is what interested me into this topic because it's either mental or machinery (which I can't relate to health) that I am interested in writing about.
-How is your question/topic timely? Why is it important to address this topic? Why should people care about it?
My topic is for when students are easily affected by their emotions without aware of the consequences. the topic will allows them to be aware of their mindset, and how it affects their works. People can care about it if they are interested in it. No one will care for something he/she isn't interested about.
-What do you expect to find in your research? What preliminary research have you done that makes you expect this?
Positive and negative effects of emotions on people's lifestyles and works. An article, "Mental health problems in childhood and adolescence", stated the emotional problems causing the outcomes on people throughout their life.
-Are you coming across scholars w/ different answers to your question, or different views of your topic? (If you're NOT and people seem to all agree, then your research question and topic probably aren't worth pursuing, right?) Explain what these answers/views are that you are finding. (Remember that our textbook warns us of the dangers of binary thinking on pg. 6.)What do you think about the different viewpoints? Where do you stand on the issue, and do you think your mind could change the further you get into this semester-long inquiry?
I am somewhat seeing my topic in different views.
How these emotional situations might positively affect people? How to prevent major consequences from these problems? Is it possible to ignore it like most people with only minor consequences? Can you change these problems to create positive outcomes?
The viewpoints can be useful for stating more information about my topic than just focusing on the topic's basic questions. I like this topic and think I can find some positive outcomes on emotional situation, but I might change topic as I get further into this assignment. I can't be sure that I will find what I want.
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