Week of October 24th Blog

           My first actual research assignment was from English class last year. Last year our English teacher gave an assignment for us student to do a college-level research paper. The research paper was very tough to complete as it required me to gather  many sources and read through each one of them picking out the important details that is relevant to my topic, not using the whole article. The research topic was both an interesting and difficult experience for me when I was a 11th grader last year. 

           The topic that I wrote about for my research paper was the corruption of the American Dream. This was a interesting topic as we were reading The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald at the time. The corruption of the American dream was a difficult topic to write about because it required a lot of critical analysis to how the American dream is corrupted or why is it corrupted to people. The process of learning how to conduct research and doing an actual research paper was by my teacher, and through the librarian (Mrs. Sarles). I used the internet and books for my research paper. Websites were my main sources of information while the book I used was The Great Gatsby to reference to. The websites I got  from the internet was from the school database, learning how to use the database through the librarian was a huge help in completing the assignment. 

          Overall, the research assignment was a good experience. The reason why its a good experience is that it allows me to view what college papers are going to be like. Learning how to do this as early as an 11th grader allows me as a student to progress not only in college but future papers that I have to write. I liked the assignment as in hindsight it's going to help me a lot in the future however it was really tedious to write as I had to constantly regurgitate the idea of the topic that I was writing about.