Blog assignment #10 Jehwan Lee

First when I interviewed person, I couldn't process naturally to question by question. More taking interview, getting better. Memorizing relation between questions was needed to find out interviewee's thinking. It was also helpful to remembering interviewee's opinion when I wrote essay. Anyway, my topic was illegal downloading and not many people had thought seriously so it was little difficult to find good participants. Among them, especially Korean knew expert knowledge. They said their opinion why illegal downloading have spead constantly very detailly. I also Korean and used to do illegal downloading but some of their 'theory' was really interesting. In addition, when I planed to interview, I didn't catch that release their name could make participants uncomfortable because it is about illegal action. Second participlant was stranger and he ask for his name to anonymous. And after that, I didn't ask participant's name to make comfortable so that people say their honesty opinion. Although almost interviewee was friends or neighbor, interviewing, questioning, explaining, analyzing was hard for me. On the contrast, a stranger's opinion was very simple so I could get exact what he said easily:)

Xian Li's blog assignment #10

Have an interview provide an excellent experience for me to communicate with others, especially talk with those students I am not familiar. Actually in my interview, we talked about their internet use and their confidence in the information from the web. What I am impressed is not the answers they gave to me, instead is the difference between students with different major. I always think that more and more students are familiar with computers, some of them may even acquire the programming skills even their major is not computer science. However, when I asked a question that what you will do to your website in order to make it more trustworthy, most of the students told me they think the question was difficult to answer, it is too professional. Even some students studying system science, which is a major quite related with computer science, told me they did not know much about the website design. It really surprised me. This is the first time I felt that computer science maybe look not that easy in other students’ mind:)

Blog Assignment # 10

All posts are due by Wednesday, May 7th at 10pm. All comments are due by Thursday, May 8th at 9am.

1. Write for 10-15 minutes about your experience interviewing. How did it go? Did you enjoy it? Why or Why not? Did anything surprising or interesting happen during any of your interviews? If yes, please explain.

2. Read all posts.

3. Comment on one post.

#9 Jacob Lee

How internet has effect campus stuednts' lifes

Do we see poeple useing post mails these days? I don't think so, we mostly use e-mail. When my parents talk about the how they did reseach was with books and walking around running to places, but know we see students in their room, looking up the internet. Even now the homework assinment we are doing is using the internet. So, to most student internet has became an essenitial skill and media that everyone should be able to use. I use the internet mainly for games and chatting, with a bit of school work. The reason I choose this topic is that I wanted to know what students usually use the internet for and wheter or not people are addictive to the
internet.

Javier Rodríguez "Assignment # 9"

Spatial Diffusion of Information Communication Technologies among College Students

I have chosen this topic because I feel so interested about this. I believe that computer and other technologies have an important role to play in education. The 21^st Century is marked by an era of globalization in which, there is an increasing interconnectedness between people and places around the world. This process is largely driven by the emergence of information based technologies that are rapidly diffusing among various groups around the world. However, not everyone has equal access to these new technologies. This has resulted in a digital divide, which varies among different groups and societies around the world. Ultimately, the onus lies on educators who are expected to adopt new technologies and encourage their students to accept a new generation of technologies that are full of advantages. As a result, I expect to evaluate through this investigation if college students at Binghamton University are encouraged by their professors’ or other different sources.

Yoonsuk Jung, Assignment #9

The world is getting smaller. In modern society, we can make a relationship with foreign people without any difficulties and also experience different culture and language free as communication and transportation develop. Therefore, my topic for research paper is “International Marriage”. The reason why I choose this topic is because international marriage is increasing and is no longer a big issue in our society than before. We can often see quite a number of foreign couples on the street or our neighborhoods. For these reasons, I wonder what kinds of problems international marriage has. What are people’ opinions about the international marriage? And how can they overcome language and culture barriers? After conducting this research paper, I expect to learn people’s various opinions, related problems, and advantages and disadvantages in international marriage.

Vanessa Cruz Inoa Blog # 9

For my research paper I decide writing about culture influences in new places. The culture is the expression of one country. Culture it is many statement of history and country legacy. The social identification between others coutries and peoples. For my is reallly important the people preserve their culture, becuase is a way to keep authonomy and pride by country . Every day living the culture change in different direction. The society movement to different place and the integration of new life styles. Is very important preserve the identity and love by own culture.

Hongchul : Assignment #9

Self-Study and Group Study: Which is more effective?
My research topic is mentioned above.
While some students prefer to study alone, others prefer to study with a group of students. Since there are plenty of advantages to both choices, it is not easy to say which is more effective to students. It depends on circumstances which students encounter.
In my case, group study is more effective than self-study for several reasons. First, I can achieve easily my learning goals within short time by studying together. Students in a group usually do a lot of preparation in order to pass an exam or get good marks. We give quizzes to one another, share materials and sometimes ask questions each other. By doing this, we can study without boredom. This is another advantage of studying in a group.
Next, while studying together, we can learn a sense of responsibility and interpersonal skills. When we study in a group, we should take our share and we can realize our own role in a group by asking for and receiving help one another.
However, I don’t think that most students prefer to group study. Actually I am curious about other students’ opinion.
My main purpose of this research is to know what are pros and cons of each way; self-study and group study. From this research I want to draw a conclusion which way is more effective to students considering field of major, gender, and nationality.

Lakshmi Blog Assignment #9

I have decided to research about "Iternational Students" for my final paper. I know it's a broad topic but I have to analize it to focus on for what I really want to talk about. I know as an international student how difficult this new environment is. I still couldn't come out of the shell I am really sticked in, and want to find out the exact reasons for the frustration of the international students suffer. Sometimes we think that a certain reason should affect our feelings but it would not be the exact reason. As we are too confused about the things we see and hear around us it's difficult to have a clear picture at once. I hope to do this research among various kinds of students, not only interviewing international students, but American students too. So, I thought it would be important and interesting to find out the frustrating reasons haunting around us which would sometimes be really helpful to find ourselves.

Andrew Kim "Assignment #9"

My topic for research paper is: "Campus life". Especially i want to look at this main question: Do students prefer to live on campus or off, and why?

The reason why I chose this topic is because recently, i have internal conflict in my mind where to live next year. Personally I don't have much good feelings about living on-campus mainly because of foods and facilities. Living on campus seems like no beneficial to me right now, but there would be also some unpredicted disadvantages if i live off campus. So I want to know other students' feelings about living on or off campus. Students have various positive and negative thinkings about campus life which can be measured from interview.
Additionally, it does not need much of external knowledges and it is easy to approach.. Perhaps i can write paper just by what i interviewed.

Ultimately, i want to measure which things should be improved how, in what ways, for
every BU students' welfare.(Even if the improvements are unattainable, i'll just write it, because this is ESL research paper, which is not for actual use.)

Things to consider about Campus Life:

facility(Dormitory,Lecture hall,Library,printer)
exercise- field,gym

Dining service- food, menu, foodcourt
transportation
nearby trading area
cost - room&board/ apartment fee if you live off-campus
employees- their service, kindness
International students -breakhousing
disabilities students -??

Ha young Choi blog #9

My topic is about sports. why I choose this topic is because I really like to play sports. Especially I like to play soccer. In binghamton University there are lots of soccer fields to play. But I am curious about why there is no american football field and varsity team which play football in binghamton university. I want to know BU students that whether they like we don't have any football field and team or not. And also want to know that wath kind of sports students like it most.

Blog Assignment #9 ( Hiu Wing, Chu)

My topic of research paper is "happiness". I choose this topic is because happiness can affect our quality of life. In our dailylife, we always face so many different pressure and problem to make us feel depress,but happiness can bring us pleasure, joy, exhilaration, bliss, contentedness, delight, enjoyment, and satisfaction those positive mental state feeling. Therefore, I want to know more what factors are important in achieving happiness and how can we achieving it.

Blog Assignment #9 Jehwan Lee

I choose a topic about illegal download on the internet. Theseday because of spreading internet user, sharing information and file ilegally is issued. The objective of illegal download file is various from secret technology of company to recent movie.Especially media contents is seriously active sharing person to person on the internet so it cannot be prevented. I am very interested in this issue because I have used programs to download illegally. However in the past, there were no restriction to download so there is no wonder people don't want to quit this illegal conduct even although they know what they should do. Also the copyright law to protect from illegal downloading should be more flexible to download because internet is becoming percieved the most big market to the world. Media contents take advantage of internet at the same time, a system that paying information fee to use media contents has to be created.

Dahyun Choi (Blog Assignment #9)

My topic of research paper is internet and I believe that it is really familiar to us. I am also interested in this topic and have been wondered how many people have had any trouble when they used internet. Since I have had some privacy problem when I used internet, I would like to know how other people think and react about it. Well, although internet has provided us convenience life, I think there are lots of problems caused by it like privacy, security, ethical issues and so on.
The questions that I may going to ask to the people are;"What was the problem when you used internet?" "What was the consequence of the problem?" "Did the problem effect the way in which you use internet? If yes, how did it effect?"

Xian Li's Blog #9

The topic of my paper is “trustworthiness of web information”, which is actually the research topic of my graduate study. As we all know, internet serves as one of the most important information repository. According to the survey, most people use internet as knowledge reference or for daily life information. However, because of the autonomy property of web sites, there is no guarantee that online information is trustworthy. The trustworthiness problem is extremely severe, because students depend on it as study reference, shoppers enjoy the convenience of online shopping and even when people feel ill they would like to search medical information on the web.

I choose this topic in order to collect students’ opinion on the web information trustworthiness, moreover get to know how common users identify a piece of information is trustworthy or not. There must be some features for their identification and all these features may help generate some heuristic rules which are going to help building a system evaluating page trustworthiness. I plan to interview students from different major as well as one or more professors. Hopefully, I can generate useful research conclusion.

Yulia Smirnova Blog # 9

My topic of the reseach paper is about Nutrition. I chose this topic because I am intersted in it. When I first time came to USA, I did not know what to eat. All food here is different with food in my country. Also now I have problem with food, I can't eat healthy in America. But this is very important for everybody, because we are what we eat. It will be interesting to know do american people eat healthy or do they know how to eat healthy?That's the questions that I want to know in my reasech paper.

Blog Assignment #9

Due date to post is Wednesday, April 16th by 10pm. Due date to comment is Thursday, April 17th, by 9am.

1. Write for 10-15 minutes about the topic you have chosen for the field research paper. Why did you choose this topic? What do you hope to learn from conducting research about this topic?

2. Read all posts.

3. Comment on one post.

Xian Li's blog assignment 8

I have written some research paper before and have some basic idea about what an engineering research paper looks like. I remembered Hongchu talked about the difference between engineer research paper and the APA or MLA principle in class. Actually it is the same as what I have found. In our research paper, all the references are listed with a sequential number in front of each reference. The cited journal papers, conference papers, and web links have almost the same format. In our own paper, if necessary to cite the idea of another paper, we only need to provide the number of the corresponding reference and put it in parenthesis. There is no need to provide the exact page number or section number. This style is widely used in Press like Springer and IEEE, ACM .etc. Therefore, I find the APA and MLP style a little complicated than what I know before.

Yoonsuk Jung, blog assignment #8

To be honest, I do not have much experience of writing a research paper so I am not sure exactly what to write about, however in my perspective, the main difference of between a research paper and academic essay is that a research paper is based on facts. Also, it would be summarized as some features. First, a research paper needs a typical format which is APA and MLA. Second, a research paper requires a writer to be critical and thoughtful skills in order to analyze his hypothesis based on datum or sources. Therefore, a research paper should be contained writer’ own interpretation or evaluation. Third, a writer has to survey and collect information that is reliable and related to a main subject in order to increase reliability of a research paper and persuade readers. When I write a general academic essay, I mean paper, I try to make my position clear through agree or disagree and express my though. A research paper would be stiff than a general academic paper and it would be complicate and difficult too. However, I think if we understand and practice how to write a research paper, we can be a skillful writer tool.

Hongchul : Assignment #8

Writing a research paper is to wrap up all kinds of stuffs relating to research including the concept of topic, research history, and own test results. Once we choose the research topic, we usually survey previous works or papers regarding our topic and try to find any immaturity in my research area. It is necessary to build and validate my theory which is to make up for the immaturity of my research area. Undoubtedly, there are many trial and errors in building and validating my own theory. By overcoming tough process, we can learn how to solve the problem and what the essence of my research is. In this point of view, since I am familiar with my research area, it is not difficult to write a research paper.
On the other hand, how about writing an academic essay? Frankly speaking, I am not used to write an essay since I don’t like to write a story. Especially, the topics which we are dealing with in the ESL class are beyond my concern and there are many unfamiliar nouns and definitions in the reading articles needed for writing. Also writing style in the essay is different that of research paper.
Although it is more difficult for me to write an essay than to write a research paper, I am sure that writing exercise can give me a chance to enhance my writing skill.

Blog #8 Hayoung Choi

In this semester, I only wrote academic essays. I have been writing academic essays in my esl 210 writing class. Yet I didn’t have a chance to write reserch papers. I thought only harder level classes are give a research paper assignments to students.
Like I wrote in esl class, I wrote academic essays, I read articles or stories in the book and wrtting about my thoughts, agree or disagree with the author’s point. Then I support my idea using examples like my experineces related to the topic. Gives more detail to my opinion.
I said previously in this writing, I never wrote research papers yet. I heard rules that how to write reaseach paper from my friends. Almost all of my friends said research paper is harder to write than academic essays. Research paper is about writing facts and informations form other books, journals and articles to support own idea. It seems to be harder to find appropriate examples from various sources. And also have to think abput plagiarism. Because we are using other’s writings. In my opinon, research paper is harder to write than academic essays.

#8 Jacob Lee

My whole life writing a research paper was a very rare event. To start with in Korea people do not write much, and the only thing they write about is what they felt after reading a book, or for test, which is nothing like a research paper. The first time I had encountered a research paper was with the biology class I took last semester. I did really bad on it, because it was the first time for me to write a research paper. The most significant different that I have noticed is that there are not much of my opinions, by itself. All the martial used in the paper must be supported by not my experience but by something that is strictly true or what most people think that is true. Especially for me the hardest part was that I always use to back up my views with my experience, but the research papers did not allow that also they it was not a good idea to use the would I, me, us, and other words that I mostly use in my papers. Another thing that is different from an essay is that it has an exact format that should be followed and that if you don’t you get penalties for it. Therefore, what I want to say is that compared to a free writing essay writing a formal research paper is not many people enjoy

Andrew Kim "Assignment #8"

In academic essays, i could use many of my personal experiences. After few minutes of concentration, old and almost forgetted experiences poped up in to my mind and made me enjoy writing. It also helped me a lot with supporting my ideas, connecting paragraphs smoothly, and enabling me to keep writing. Unfortunately, I can't use any of my topic related experiences when i write research paper. In terms of this, research paper would be somewhat more objective than plain academic paper.

So far, I don't have any experiences of writing a research paper and i think it would be kind of annoying. Research paper is going to force me to stay in library for a long time makes me read several books and articles. To read all those books and articles which are related to topic of the research paper, however, time would be not enough. So I might have to skim most parts of books, and inversely, pick only some important parts of the books and read those thoroughly. While read, maybe i have to quote a lot and put bunch of references side by side, which would be really boring task. I'm afraid i have to do that pretty soon, the time is coming.

Lakshmi Blog Assignment #8

I am confused about writing my research paper for the first time in my life. As we already keep going through writing academic essays it's easy to understand how to write such essays. Although I don't have experience in writing research papers, I think that it's more complicated than writing an academic essay. When we write academic essays we only consider about one or two articles. We give our perspective while considering the facts which could be agreed or disagreed. But in a reseach paper we have to go deeply into a specific subject matter and have to analize the specific facts comparing with other materials. To find out appropiate facts we should read lot of books, articles ,journals etc. The issues we focus to consider on those readings should well organized and should open a new path to a new research work and it would be more detailed with evidence provided. Although I feel this as how a reserch paper is I am still trying to understand it. It's good to know how to do research work then we can focus on some new findings through our major academic career. I am willing to do mine.

Vanessa Cruz Inoa Blog #8

Writing whatever paper is important, but exist different type of paper and one of this is research paper. The research paper it is a compilation of another papers and investigation. It is the process was need create; methods, hypothesis, data set, and another’s. The methodology to write research papers it is different, because it is more consistent and directly with the discovery. The founding represents important part of the research paper, because adjudged one part most important in the analysis of research. Need the research paper answering the question what have the hypothesis and check the information with the discovery. It is an exhaustive investigation and analysis of the study. The essay corresponded to interpretation of the reader and couples of important quotation in the reading and analysis of the same. For me the essay correspond to necessity of comunication a idea and personal interpretation The different between research paper and essay for me it is the process of analysis and interpretation. Because essay it is more liberal in the expression of ideas and research paper it is more scientific, is more necessary the investigation and founding.

Blog Assignment #7 ( Hiu Wing, Chu)

Be honest, I never write the research paper before, so I don’t have any in depth concept to tell about the different between research paper and academic paper. I just know that it is a piece of academic writing that requires a more abstract, critical, and thoughtful level of inquiry than the regular academic paper.
In my mind, I always think that research paper’s requirement is much more that academic paper. Because if you want to write a research paper, first of all, you need to know the material really well and you also need to find a lot of data and statistics to support your point and ideas. For example, academic paper can be a paper which gives your feedback after reading an essay, or talk about your own experience without any support, however research paper should present your own thinking backed up by others' ideas and information. Moreover, the length of the paper must more than academic paper a lot. Because writing a paper is really a terrible time for me, so I always try my best to escape the class which have long paper to write, that’s why I don’t have any experience of writing research paper. Furthermore, research paper needs more strict format and structure, like the APA style, to deal with the references sources. Although academic paper also uses MLA style for references, we won’t see many references in the paper most of time.
Finally, the last concept that I have in research paper is money! Many teacher’s salary is depends on their research paper, that’s why some of the teacher is more care about those paper than student.

Blog Assignment #8 (Dahyun Choi)

Unfortunately, I do not have an experience of writing a research paper in college yet but I assume that it might be quite different from writing academic essays. There would be more facts and conclusions of other resources and we may required to write the references which we learned last class. On the other side, in academic essays, I think there will be more my own thinkings, feelings, experiences and examples while the most text of a research paper consists of the work already done by someone. And as I assume there will be less agree/disagree about a specific text since it is a research paper.
For example, if I decide to research on grading system and write a research paper about it, I may write mostly about the facts and examples already found and explained from other writers rather than my own experience or feelings.
I think writing a research paper will be hard work to do since we may required to do lots of research and they should be relevant to my paper. And I did not have many opportunities to write it so it will be challenging to me. But I also believe that writing a research paper is necessary and useful in college life since I think there will be many moments to write research papers compared to now.

Blog Assignment #7 Jehwan Lee

The most difference between research essay paper and writing essay paper is that whether the writer write the essay based on fact or not. It is same both type of essay has author's opinion about topic. However, in research paper, the progress to reach conclusion is supported by the fact that people already know and recognize it is true. The conclusion is called hypothesis. For example, if I want to insist new theory about chemistry, first I would build hypothesis and write a reason to support it. Again, the reason should be "true" which all of people perceive. If the reason is logically support the hypothesis, it would be recognized theory. Because the support is fact, this type of essay is used to be taken in science. On the other hand in case of writing essay paper, there is no format such as hypothesis and theory. Even there is no absolute true in this feild although some common criteria is existed. Former format of this type is first intro to introduce what the author issue in paper, make support idea in body and summury in conclusion. Because there is no restrict to take idea, the author's logic is most important. Most of this type of essays are used in socialogy, humanistic academic feild.