research and a road trip

Road TripRoad TripMr. Sheehy’s analogy to the research paper

How can a road triproad trip be like a research research

paperpaper?

Isn’t that an insult to the coolestcoolest American

experience,

the road triproad trip?

Listen, it makes sense.

Both involve a processprocess.

Both involve sharingsharing your discoveries.

Need more?

Okay, let’s take a look.

Step One

Decision time.

WhereWhere are you are you going?going?

It’s like It’s like choosinchoosin

g g aa topictopic,,

Or Or creating creating aa thesisthesis..

Step Step TwoTwo

Prepare.

Plan.

Collect info on what you want to see.

Sound like research?

It should.

Step Step ThreeThree

Start packing.

You’re doing more than packing, though.

You’re organizing,

Making Making sure sure nothing nothing ends upends up

in in the the

wrongwrong place.place.

So when it’s time to go,you’re ready.

For this, teachers use words like

categorize,

and organize,

and tools like

note cards

and outlines.

Step Step FourFour

Hit the road,

See everything,

send a postcard,

& take pictures.

It’s like a reportreport.

But if anyone isto follow you

It has to make sense.

That’s why there is

Step Step FiveFive

Leave a trail

that can be followed.

So if your friends want,

They can eat where you ate,

or not,

and do what you did,

or not.

Teachers call this

Writing Writing citationscitations

And making aAnd making aworks citedworks cited..

So let’s be So let’s be honesthonest, then., then.

It’sIt’sharhardd

worwork.k.

It would be easier to

hand your friends a pile of brochures and a map,

Or to hand in to your teachers a list

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But your friends want to hear what YOUYOU thought about your trip,

And your readers want to

hear what youyou think

about your

topic.

And in the end,

it’s worth it.

Just think of it

as a road trip.

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