Saturday, October 4, 2014

What Type of Researcher?

When I research I feel like I'm a mixture of all three of these types. I feel like a lot of high school writing I've done I didn't feel like I had a lot of time to do in depth research so I wouldn't try super hard to find different sources and I didn't really care where they came from. However, I do often find my best sources accidentally because I don't use the same source twice more often than not. I just don't really keep track of where I get my information after I've finished my research. I also don't plan my research out, I just look and read then I read more and more until I've found information I can use for my paper. I can be pretty steadfast in my opinion at times but other times if I find a lot of information and it sways what I think I will change my mindset and change my paper if I need to. I don't know what kind of researcher this makes me but it's kind of interesting to dissect my research habits because I've never really thought about it before because it worked out well for me in high school so I figured why change it if it works? Now in college I'm sure I'm going to have to change my researching habits.

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  1. Kynna---One of the major findings about how we transfer things we learn from one context to another is exactly the kind of thinking you're doing here. The technical term is "metacognitive" thinking--thinking about thinking--and in theory the time you're spending considering how you approach research problems should prove super useful later on.

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