Download - 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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