Joel's CI 8395 Reflection Blog

Chapt 4 - Again, the idea of fleshing out your questions with the three step formula seems to be of great importance to me. I’ve got a ton of questions and they are certainly not all researchable. This formula on page 66, can serve as a useful guide to narrowing down my focus.

I still have this great tension between applied and pure research. I want so badly for my work to be applicable for the practitioners, but really I don’t think that this is what they (the research community) looks for. A problem, to them, is more about adding to understanding of an ongoing issue. True science, is really about research for the sake of understanding without thoughts of future application. Can one do both? The idea of looking for new questions at the end of research documents is a nice way to pickup on existing works that you may be able to add to the discussion.

Chapt 6 – Again, maybe my old ways of doing research are not as modern or sophisticated as they could be. This chapter is a nice look at how to read research and begin to use it as sources. Looking at common mistakes in misquoting or misreading sources is treated well. It really resonated with me the idea of how your biases could slip very easily into your reading; especially as you write your literature review. Also citing evidence, not just only claims into your argument, is critical in the literature review as well. Organization, not a strong point of mine, is also key in helping to correctly use, and not inadvertently abuse, sources.

Pg. 106 – speedy reading of sources. Just a quality section of tips on how to get more out of your readings…

Designing New Media…. I probably didn’t due this much justice, but this is probably the most bombastic, obfuscated, and confusing article I have read. I need to read this one again, with a dictionary. However, if I ever begin to write like this...