Research, I Guess!

In the past, I have never found research papers difficult, until I found myself in this English class. I think it is because in the past I have always had the topic giving to me. And now that that we have to come up with our own topic and relate it back to San Jose. I am having a hard time and know that my research paper will suck and I will do poorly. The fact is I'm not confident or comfortable is going to play a major role in writing this paper. In Chapter 6, the most important idea that stuck out to me, “The best research papers are the papers in which writers make absolutely clear what they are arguing –to themselves as well as to their readers” located on page 150. Most first year college students really don’t care about what they writing about, as long as they get the paper done. They don’t take the time to really think about a topic before they start to write about it, they do the minimum work possible. I think most writers when they start to write a research paper they only have an idea that they writing about but it may not be clear on what they writing about. And I think as a writer that is why we go through so many drafts until we get the perfect idea to write about and we fell confident enough to write about that idea.