DIY Research Process (Blog #8)
I really have only done one research project in my high school career, and I didn't hate it. It was my junior year and the topic was a word that we researched. We had to go in depth on the word and discuss some aspect of it. It was a broad prompt, so it was up to us to narrow it down. The word I picked was "inspiration" and I decided to try to figure out where it comes from and how different people get motivation. As a procrastinator myself, I thought that it was be an interesting topic to research. Luckily, it was. Part of the paper was that we had to get our sources from different mediums. For example, one of my sources was a book that I had already read, another was a video game, and another was the dictionary, so the sources were all over the place. One that particularly stands out to me is my use of a quote from the song King by Florence and the Machine: "You need to go to war to find material to sing." The quote brings up an interesting point: does in...