Monday, March 3, 2008

My happiness~~~~


Well~~~~finally we finished the paper part of research project~I'm so glad that I finished the paper~but more important thing is I'm happy that I really learn sth from this project~

There are several skills I learnt in this project. Firstly, I learnt how to summary a long article to a short one or just few paragraphs. To begin with, I should make a plan for organization. I need to find the themes and main ideas. Moreover, when I write it in a short paper, I should use briefly words and sentences to support these main ideas.

Secondly, paraphrase is another skill I learnt here~ because no matter which topic we want to talk, we need many explanations and evidence which are found from different resources to support our mean ideas. Sometime, the ideas what I want to present are not mine. Therefore, I need to paraphrase authors' ideas from their books or articles. Furthermore, I need to show that these statements or theories from which authors, which website, which magazines, or which articles (references).........I learnt a lot about paraphrase in the class and from the book " To Be Honest"~~

Moreover, another skill which is also very important for our study, especially for some students who will attend a university is how to search the recourses in a library or using the library website. As we know, when we write sth on the paper, we should have a critical thinking. We should make sure what we write should be the truth. Therefore, where u find the recourses for supporting ur ideas is extremely important for doing a research project. Usually, the recourses from the library can convince people. To know how to find materials what u need in the library is the key to do the research. According to the explanations from the person who works in the Concordia university library, most of us have already handled this skill.

I also developed my writing skill in the paper part of research project. Based on the correction from lili and Adrianne, I know how to construct my sentences in different ways to explain ideas and how to let readers follow my themes in the paper.

For me, I'm satisfied with my paper; even there still have some problems. Maybe I will change another title which could more attractive. I think the content is fine, just the reasons for people keep doing " slow suicide" is hard to explain, because the reasons are similar with people who shoot themselves, slash their wrists, jump from the skyscrapers........ They don't have big differences.......However, if I cut this part, readers will feel this paper miss sth and not completed.

Well......anyway~I feel happy for the process of doing this paper~I eanjoy it~people could be happy for families getting together, people could be happy for enough food, people could be happy for learning~

2 comments:

Jarno said...

From the project, from the proccess of writing a paper, it is very important to really learn something and use it next time or even do other projects.

Helen said...

Ha,xixi,you did a very good job about your reaserch paper. For me, it's hard to do but finially I finish it and I also learn a lot from it. Eventhough I worked very hard for my paper, I'm not satisfied with my paper. I don't know why I felt that it seems like still missed something when I finished, may be it's too hurry that I couldn't do it perpectly...Anyway, I finished my paper and now I have to handle my presentation. I hope that I can do it well...