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My strategy for my first draft research paper is to use my outline as a guide to how I will formulate my paragraphs and main points with proof from the research I conducted. I am a bit nervous about my form of attack on this paper. However, this has worked for me in my past and I have been successful in past research papers. Nevertheless, my research has taken me to a slightly different direction to my original proposal; I have found information that correlates with one another other and I feel comfortable with my research I just have to change my mind frame from what I original wanted. I am not completely off, but my search was narrowed down specifically.

Well I tried using Google Scholar and it did give me some good info about my research topic. Google Scholar is a good resource to find information on certain topics because it does give you good articles that we can use. Some articles can be reliable and some can just give you too much information that you don’t really need. So like in Badke’s readings we just have to narrow down the topic and it will for sure give good information in any resource site we look at. I have found several articles that I can use for my research and it gives me the info I need. I found similar articles that I had already research on other databases. This tells us that no matter what resource or search engine we use we will find similar articles in any of those engines being used.

Data as a goal and data as a tool. Two very interesting ways to look at the information available on a certain topic. The part that is comedic of Badke is how professors must go through the dread of reading a simple report on the topic without the writer raising any attention getting questions or points of view. Using acquired data on a topic to form an in depth analysis on an issue sounds a lot more entertaining to read AND write. Maybe all professors should require this chapter as part of a class’s syllabus, that way those once dreaded papers can actually become an intellectual gold mine.