thlog 4

I think the thing that will stuck with me the most is all the stuff about the research in the library. I didn’t really find the activity to be particularly entertaining; however, odds are, that I will have to research a good bit of stuff in the library throughout my college career. The ability to manage a search engine is a key tool in the research process. I feel like that is a sad reality of adult life. In school, we are taught these grand ideas;however, in real life most of what we do—when school is over— is the tedious part of school that we try to ignore. So I always try to identify parts of school that exemplify the next level, and I think that library research is one of them. Another interesting idea that came out of the library research thread was the two ways to search. You can either have a specific idea in mind and use the search engine to expand on that idea or you can have a very big/general idea and refine it with the search engine. Both of these ways of doing them are interesting, but the fact that you can do either using the search engine is pretty neat. Another thing from class that I thought was interesting are the grammar lessons that we will have to do in groups. Like I have said before, I think that grammar is kind of interesting to look at. I don’t really like grammar tests or anything, but the actual study of grammar for use in my writing is interesting. So I am very interested to see when the day comes that we actually present what all the grammar rules are like. Considering that I don’t even know what hedged language is, it should be quite informative.