Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Sample Research Investigation

This example was very interesting for me to read. I like that we were given this sample, because I really hate starting a project and not knowing what I'm doing, especially if it's going to be important to my grade. IB tends to do this to me alot, and so I was extremely glad when I got this sample. Reading it over, I noticed a few things that put my mind at ease. For one, it wasn't too much different than everything we had been doing in different classes: like World Literature papers, and History Internal Assessments. Noticing this made it feel that much more accomplishable.

The thing that really concerns me is finding my topic. I really don't know much about any kinds of theatre, and it's not that I don't want to learn, because I really do. But I'm afraid I wont be able to find any kind of information or research about the topic I chose. Just the idea of having to research a certain way of a threatical practice seems to obscure to me-I have experienced the problem of not being able to find sufficient information before, and it causes stress, and makes me really frustrated. How did this student find all it's information? Things like this I wonder about, it concerns me.

I did enjoy reading it though, because Commedia is very interesting to me. I also think it was very well written. I usually lose interest in the middle of the paper but this one was able to hold me for much longer than that. The length looked daunting and impossible but really a lot of the pages after the paper was the source analysis. I'm not particularly good at analyzing sources, so this will be a very difficult part for me, but I'm happy for the practice.

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