Nothing Funny About Researcj :(

No need to tell me, my writing style is crazy! But it seems so natural to me and it hasn’t really ever let me down.

If I’m “heated” about the topic I try to avoid writing about it. Initially I wanted to write about first world problems, because they really are ridiculous. Maybe because I’m an optimist, but we really do have it good. So in this case I chose something that I am passionate about but not very informed about when it comes to something other than, “what’s your favorite trail?” National Parks.

Then I just ask a thousand questions to get me started. It’s not until I ask 1001 that it dawns on me, “what does this have to do with globalization?” Then I feel like I get this great tangent which can be comical, and I fall in love. “Asians love national parks!” “How many Asians visit the national parks (those threatened by oil exploits) annually?” Then I just keep researching these ideas until, meanwhile I keep coming up with fun intros, theses, and catch phrases which give me direction towards possible counter arguments. In fact, I think I look up opposing evidence more than I do for stuff that would support my initial bias. In the course of this issues paper I have already gone from disliking oil companies to accepting their necessity and business ethics.

It isn’t until I start putting pen to paper, or finger to keyboard, that I actually start to develop a real position. When I started writing that oil companies should be allowed access to national parks it evolved into “considering the profit margin generated around national parks (tourism), more emphasize should be put into bettering parks over oil drilling.” Then I research and learn about these aspects of national parks and write again. This process continues until, well, forever. The drawback to this is that even when I am writing my final drafts I am seeing more things to consider that I sometimes get tempted to change my entire stance on the discourse. After following this pattern during the last week I am now looking at research for and against the claim that the oil industry should not be transnational. Now as I research this I will be able to refine the specifics, or find a stronger position to take on it. Usually by the end I am not writing about what I initially planned. But something more refined and probably seems to make it way on to my papers.