Update

Turned in my research proposal on Thursday. Right now, I'm looking over the annotated bibliography assignment. I will probably start today or tomorrow looking for sources to examine. That's about it for now.

Research Progress

Started writing the research proposal. I'm heading into the direction of comedy writing, something along the lines "what makes funny writing." By jotting down ideas, it helped me formulate thoughts and get the project going. Best resource I got so far was uncyclopedia's How To Be Funny And Not Just Stupid which can be found here. It talks about how to make funny uncyclopedia (which is a parody of wikipedia) articles. I found it interesting because it uses a variety of different genres of comedy "writing" incuding satire, lists, pictures, stupidity, truth and quotes. Once again, I'll try to formulate all of the questions and ideas as I write the research proposal.

Nelson reaction

In my opinion, there are a lot of reasons why hopes of teachers and professors do not match those of students regarding research papers. One of the reasons being that students do not have the same passion for the subject or the research process itself as their teachers and professors do. The core of this problem lies in the overall values that students are conditioned to have since they are little. Everything is done with a hope of a goal, there is no passion in the process itself simply the idea of a "paper."