Draken Korin's Blog

Secret Fan of Research January 26, 2010

http://www.esc.edu/esconline/across_esc/writerscomplex.nsf/0/ddbc866bc537f67e85256a460066ab2d?OpenDocument

What is research writing?  Is it studying, watching, or spending hours reading?  Sure it is.  It all depends on the person and what they want to research.  I, myself, think of it as a treasure hunt.  That particular idea was presented to me on a school website and I found it to be nearly perfect in my view.  Being a research writer is easy.  See how easy that was?  Yes we are all researchers because that is human nature.  Looking up something and sending your friend a text message to tell them about it makes one a research writer.  Developing a research question is the question.  I like to think of what I want to do, why I want to do it, and how I could go about doing it.  For example, I want to do something on fencing.  I want to do this because I want to know why we aren’t swinging massive swords against massive armored knights.  I’ve already started to research this by fencing for the past two years and starting to get an idea of why it’s done this way.  That makes me want to learn.  I want to know EVERYTHING.