Blog Entry 4

  Over the years you are thrown into school at a very young age beginning as early as pre-school, you are taught basic principles of manners, ways to make new friends and being sociable.  Everything you are taught and being influenced by as you are growing up make your tactics, characteristics and morals what they are today.  As we begin to step our toes into more advanced learning we gain a sense of how we work the best, what conditions we work best around and the greatest way of increasing our knowledge in a way we can understand it the best.  Most people gain a routine of what works best for them but as we are gradually having to take on a bigger work load and other life obstacles we learn that our past routines aren't good enough to keep up with the process of globalization.  Things are changing constantly around us because of globalization, technology is becoming more prominent and because so we are having to adjust our lifestyles.  The only problem is that it is extremely hard to change your process of researching, studying and writing when you have been taught to do it certain ways.  

    Without research it is almost impossible to learn new techniques, tactics and increase your knowledge of how things are being done as well as how things are changing.  I research artifacts the way I do today because it is the way I have been taught for years and years on end.  Those tactics have been taught to me through their experiences of researching which have been taught to them by that particular persons way of researching so on and so forth.  There are millions of different ways of researching, studying, writing and critical thinking.  It just depends on the geographic region in which you grew up and literacy sponsors that helped influence you towards your way of thinking and writing.  Just in the United States alone if one shadowed a particular teacher for a particular subject then went right down the road to the nearest school and had the same concept for the same subject then the learning styles being taught would be exceptionally different from the other.  I believe because the setting around one person and how much discourse communities have an effect on that person translate towards how he or she may write in the future.  One of the most important steps to creating a good paper is the research because it is the backbone of the whole paper.  How can you create an outline without knowing anything about the subject, and even if someone already knows a significant amount about the subject it still takes research to help base ideas of ones own thoughts.  "The most important research tip that we can offer you here is: don't rely on the Internet."  A main reason is because you will be able to find useful information about the subject online and be able to use those minor details within the paper but in articles one will find the in depth analysis of the subject.  I have learned first hand that this is true because we have had the options of using sources online and through the library where I could find books, articles, educational videos about my subject.  These findings wouldn’t just be facts and statements but they went the distance to develop in depth analysis of the subject.  These sources would give the background history of the subject while giving the audience interested in that subject the information of studies and findings.   I believe because of the way we have grown up in a more technological background that we are shifting away from the old fashion library, and moving towards online study.  Only because the Web is much easier to access from home and is less time consuming then making trips to the library. 

            As we grow up within a world of change, we as people have to adjust to it in many ways including economically, politically, globally and most importantly technologically.  If we are partaking in a worldwide global spread of international flows then it is important to stick to our base roots and original way of receiving information.  These advancements have made alternative ways of finding articles through the library and making it more accessible for the public.  Through literacy sponsors, educational development, and discourse communities we will be able to feed off one another to research, analyze, and write to the point papers that will keep our audience interested.

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