Well, for the most part this is a pretty interesting paper West has put together here. Picked some interesting people to analyze and makes the information easy to find. Easy read for a rather confusing subject. As for my own paper...
Option one seems appealing to me, and yet it does not. As has been mentioned in class it is often a challenge to discern information about your own blog, about yourself in general and I am just not sure if that is what will happen with me. But then again, I am so full of crap that I am sure if I tried hard enough I can lay a golden Egg, or at least a brass one... But on the other hand, you could say that Options 1 & 2 are pretty similar, both involve a close analysis of a blog... One just happens to be yours. And we just did that. And I was... Fine with that. But we also just wrote about that... So I have decided I will do three, and look for some scholarly works. With the help of the Library Databases, what I think will be the hardest part (The location of scholarly sources) should not be to troublesome. On the other hand, as West states, this is not a largely published topic so perhaps in the end, all my clever assumptions will come to nothing... Oh well... Such is life.
Hmm.. a lot of people seem to be picking option three. Which is interesting to me because personally as soon as Riki told us what the second essay was about it just started percolating in my brain. So now even though I still have a long way to go with the essay, I don't think I could bring myself to switch even if I wanted to because my brain is so invested in the first prompt. So it's interesting how many people are switching... maybe I'm just different. Although I already knew that :)
ReplyDeleteI definitely hear you about the repetitiveness of options one and two. I will probably do option three as well for the same reasons. Option three just seems more freeing to me.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading your post, you have given me a bit more to think about with my options. I originally planned to do either option 1 or 2 but now might switch to 3. My thought process is that option 2 or 3 feel like a repeat just as you said in your post. I thought to myself that might be too easy and I told myself I would challenge myself in the next essay. Now that I think more about it essay 3 really gives you a bit more of a challenge than 1 or 2.
ReplyDeleteI agree that the scholarly source search seems quite easy but maybe more difficult than it turns out.