During
the past few weeks, we were working on the pre-research portfolio and the process
was long, hard, and time-consuming. Although the process was difficult, I still
learned a lot of things. Before today, I never thought that a pre-research
could use me so much time. Before, I never spent more than 1 days in one
research, but now, I spent several days and nights on a pre-research! I could
not imagine that!
For me, the most tough and difficult part for
me was choosing the topic. As a person with choice phobia, I always hesitated between
several topics. I was interested in all of them but I did not know which one I
should focus on. I had not decided which topic should I use until the last
minute. At the beginning, I chose How to Prevent Harmful Algal Blooms as topic,
then I did a lot of research on this, and I could not find too much information
on google. However, I learned how to use university library database to do
research. I did find a lot of research in school database after searching for a
long period of time, but all the organizations cannot give me different solutions,
and some of the organizations give me a lot of chemical things that I do not
understand. So I decided to change my topic to How to Prevent Underage
Drinking.
I
have learned a lot in this chapter. It is pretty hard to find some good articles
by myself, but after learning how to use school library database, I do not need
to spend hours after hours on searching a good article. Also, by using the
skills teaching in scanning and skimming, I can read much faster than before.
This skills really help me with finding articles.
I
cannot imagine how difficult will the next chapter will be because this chapter
is just a pre-research for the next chapter. But I will not be panic or flurried.
I will success in this class.