Wednesday, April 2, 2008

#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.