1. I plan to
use more than just three sources in my FAR than I used in my blog project. I
feel like more than three sources were necessary to cover every important
aspect of my paper thoroughly and completely. I used about ten sources,
including some not used in my blog project, but I felt that the blog sources
were the ones that I had the best grasp of and were ultimately the most helpful
in writing my paper. Following the procedures such as summarizing and the CRAAP
analysis helped me to get a much better grasp on my sources and understanding
them better led to a more successful writing of my paper.
2. My
knowledge of the topic has grown significantly since February in many ways. What
I felt was the most significant though was that I learned so much more about
the future of gas heating and how much it has grown in recent years, including
the outlook of prices. Learning more about the future of something helped me to
make recommendations accordingly, which was the entire overlying idea of the
FAR. I learned that the cost of natural gas is much more likely to remain
stable unlike gasoline used for fuel, which the prices are unstable and
unpredictable. Overall, I learned a great deal about the future of gas heat,
and from my research, it should still be the most popular form of heat in the
United States in 5-10 more years.
3. The
analytical question(s) I used for writing my paper was: Why is gas heating the
overall best method of heating to use for a home in Pennsylvania? This question
focused more the reasons why gas heating is the best and less on just looking
at all the heating systems like a typical “what” question would.
4. I feel like
researching with guidelines over a longer period of time has really helped me to
get the most out of my research, the most out of my sources, and ultimately
will help me produce a great paper. The way we analyzed each source in
different ways really helped me personally get more important and quality
information from the sources I found because I had a better idea of what I was
looking for. Also, I really thought that writing about each one in this blog
was a great idea because it gave me practice discussing the information from
each source for when I write the actual paper, as I will be using the information
gathered from these sources multiple times in my paper. I also thought that
because it was spread out over a long period of time, I was able to write and
research more efficiently and with the best quality because there was no
rushing but more getting sources and analyzing them for what they are.
5. If there
was one thing I could have changed, it would have conducted interviews back
when I was still in the research stage before I was actually writing the paper.
Internet sources can be great and I found some excellent ones, but using the
experts I deal with in my everyday life and job proved to be a great source of
information and advice. This also ties into finding multiple types of sources.
I used a lot of journal/magazine articles and looking back now, I wish I would
have used more internet sources and, as I said, interviews to help me get a
grasp on the topic. Honestly, I learned the most in the two interviews I conducted
than I did probably in a lot of the other research. This is something that I will
learn from for any future research reports I will need to write.
No comments:
Post a Comment