Looking Back

When looking back at what kinds of research paper that I have done, it’s hard for me to remember any of them since a lot of times they were just something that was more akin to a web quest than an actual research paper until around last year. Last year in English- 111- and even in English -112-  I learned two things. The First thing is that I learn that a research paper is more than just a web quest which was learned last year. The second thing is that when reading the Norton Field Guide to Writing with Readings and Handbook I learn more about my disciplinary interests.

In English -111- I wrote a research paper about mass immigration and in which I used my research to argue the point that mass immigration is bad. As previously stated, I learn that a research paper is more than a checkbox. The thing about this paper that made me think that this made it hard for me to think about this paper as just filling in a checkbox was because we were able to just write about anything instead of having to write about a specific thing. Since we could write our research paper about whatever we want, there was no real checkbox for each different topic and I had to think a little harder about how I was going to write my paper in which I was thankful for the paper being made like this since it helps me learn to write a paper like this. Looking back at this paper it made me think about my time reading the Norton Field Guide to Writing with Readings disciplinary interests. The disciplinary interests that fit me deal with the social sciences since my paper dealt with political and social ideas. Norton Field Guide explains that when talking about this concept as a whole,”Most colleges and universities are organized around fields of study, often referred to as disciplines that share ways of seeing universe doing research and presenting information-each through a different lens” (Bullock et al. 291).

Works Cited

Bullock, Richard, et al. Chapter 24: “Fields of Study.” The Norton Field Guide to Writing with Readings and Handbook. 5th ed. Norton, 2019. pp. 291-93. PDF.