Personal Research Narrative , writing homework help
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Writing Assignment #3: Personal Research Narrative
Writing Assignment #3
will be a
personal r
esearch narrat
ive ess
ay
, which
sometimes is refer
red
to as an “
I-Se
arch” pap
er.
Backgrou
nd to t
his E
ssay
In ma
ny classes in t
he p
ast, you m
ight ha
ve b een ins
tructed nev
er to use the
word “
I” in
your
wri
ting. How
ever, t
hroughout t
his class, in both the response
ess
ay and t
he ref
lect
ive annota
ted
bibl
iograp
hy, you ha
ve b
een ins
tructed that t
he u
se of the word
“I” was to
tally acceptable, ev
en
encouraged.
In th
is essa
y, this use of f
irst-person
point
of view cont
inues.
This essa
y is
a
rese
arch es
say in which
you use the word “
I.”
Ken Ma
crorie, a p
rofess
or at W
estern Mich
igan U
niversi
ty, w
rote a tex
tbook i
n 1980 cal
led The
I-Search P
aper.
In the b
ook, M
acrorie
criticiz
ed t
radi
tional rese
arch pa
pers
that students were
often asked to produ
ce in
classes. He d
esig
ned, i
nstead, a t
ype of
res
earch
paper that as
ked
students t
o use the firs
t-person point of view
(“I”) in t
heir papers, e
ncou
raged them to e
xplore
topi
cs that were of int
erest t
o them, and required
that t
he y com
ment on t
heir res
earch jour
ney in
finding sour
ces and inf
ormation on t
heir topics as much as on a
ny argume
nts or conclus
ions the
y
were maki
ng on the
ir topics.
This wri
ting ass
ignment in W
RTG
291 is informed b
y M
acrori
e’s appr
oa ch, al
though it
does not
invol
ve all
elements of the res
earch p
rocess he as
ked for.
In your WRTG 291 class,
you ha
ve b
een given
access t
o a
chapter f
rom
Linda B
ergmann,
“Writing a P
ersonal R
esearch N
arrative.”
Pleas
e access t
hat ch
apter.
In that
chapt
er, please
review “The Pe
rsonal R
esearch
(‘I S
earch
’) Paper
,” start
ing on p
age 160.
On p
age 160,
Be
rgmann
(2010) writes:
Although an
I-Search as
signment
calls for a p
ersonal nar
rative, l
ike most
academ
ic writing it
is
wri
tten to com
municate
to a particul
ar audien
ce, not for the writer
alone.
Its purpose is t
o help
you discov
er and
com
municate the p
ersonal and
profess
ional s
ignifica
nce
of your re
search to a
particular
audience.
Moreover,
pages 16
1-16
2 in Be
rgman
n’s chap
ter list s
ome steps to take in organi
zing and
prepari
ng to w
rite
your p
aper.
Sample Personal Research Narrative Essay
On pages 162-
166 of Bergmann's chapter is a sample personal research narrative essay. Another
sample I
-Search paper can be seen by clicking here
, although this example has fewer sources and
fewer scholarly sources than this assignment calls for.
Moving f
rom the Reflective Ann
otated B
iblio
graphy to
the Per
sonal Research
Narrative
For wri
ting ass
ignment #
2,
you w
rote a r
efl
ective annotated bibl
iog
raphy o
n a topi
c related to
technolo
gy.
In that ass
ignment, for e
ach of the
ar
ticles
you
found,
you w
rote not onl
y a p
récis of
the article but also so
me vocabula
ry, refl
ection, a
nd quotes from the artic
le.
Hopeful
ly thro
ugh that a
ssi
gnment,
you develop
ed an int
erest i
n a f
ocused
aspect of
your
topi
c.
The fol
lowing d
escri
be some e
xamp
les of focusi
ng your
topi
c:
•
You may have conducted research on whether Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
are effective classroom environments. For writing assignment #2, you may have found
5- 6 articles on MOOCs in general.
Perhaps, as a result of your findings, you have now done more research and have
focused on MOOCs for a particular field of study (e.g., computer programming or
creative writing). You then found more articles related to not only MOOCs but also
MO
OCs for learning computer programming or MOOCs for learning creative writing.
•
You may have conducted research on cybersecurity. For writing assignment #2, you
may have found 5
-6 articles on cybersecurity as a broad topic.
Perhaps, as a result of your fi
ndings, you have now done more research and have
focused on cybersecurity and mobile devices. You then found more articles related to
not only cybersecurity as a general topic but specifically on cybersecurity and mobile
devices.
•
You may have conducted r
esearch on technology in the health care industry. For
writing assignment #2, you may have found 5
-6 articles on technology in the health care
industry.
Perhaps, as a result of your findings, you have now done more research and have
focused on the cloud computing in the health care industry. You then found more
articles specifically on this topic.
It i
s th
is res
earch
experi
ence on which
you will
w rite the personal r
ese
arch
narrat
ive.
Exa
mining the Sa
mple Personal Resear
ch N
arrative in Berg
mann's Chapte
r:
Note how, in the sampl
e student personal re
search narrat
ive on p
age 162, t
he student be
gins b
y
providi
ng the b
ackgrou
nd that ga
ve him
in
terest i
n the topi
c. He then dis
cusses his first st
eps in
rese
archi
ng the topic. As
he descri
bes his st
eps in the res
earch p
rocess, h
e uses e
xpress
ions like,
“I was
astounded b
y...”
or “This i
dea s
eemed val
id to m
e, but...”
or
“...let
me to wonder...” or
“At th
is point i
n m
y e
xplorat
ion
I have
come up w
ith a sl
ight d
ilemma.”
For
your p
ersonal r
ese
arch narrat
ive,
you
want t
o follow the same pat
tern.
Describe to t
he read
er
what
you thou
ght
w hen you started re
sear
ching,
what
you
alread
y k
new
about t
he subject,
what
interested
you in t
he subjec
t, etc. T
hen des
cribe
your various steps
, com
me
nting on
what
surprised
you, what
ideas di d not seem valid t
o you, what res
earch
articles
you m
ay h
ave
quest
ioned, etc.
You might consider
your response es
say, which w
as the first ess
ay you
wrote for th
is class. The
personal re
search n
arrat
ive is, i
n some w
ays, an
expanded response ess
ay. In t
he p
ersonal
rese
arch n
arrat
ive,
you m
ay b
e respondi
ng to se
veral authors
while providi
ng a n
arrative of
your
thought pro
cess and lear
ning process t
hro
ughout
your res
earch jour
ne y.
Length a
nd Oth
er Re
quire
ments:
Your pap
er should be
18
00-
2400 w
ords
.
It should i
nclude
at least
ten so
urces, s
ix of
w hich
shou
ld b
e scholarl
y
. The sources
are to b
e ci
ted and l
isted in APA format.
In a dditio
n, t
he
pa per s
ho
uld be
format
ted acc
ordi ng to APA sty
le (e.
g.,
you
s hould
i ncl
ud
e a
runni
ng h
ead
with page
nu
mbers,
have a
ppr
opriate
margi
ns, e
tc. in
accor
dance w
ith the vi
deo
tutorial
you
observed
in
clas
s,
How
to for
mat your paper according to A
PA s
tyle
.)
Additio
nal res
ources:
In o
ur class, in t
he e
-reserves sect
ion, w
e have a
chapter from the book
by Gra
ff, G.
and
Birkenstein, C
,
T
hey S
ay / I Say: The M
oves that
Matter in Academic
Wri
ting w
ith Readings
. The
chapter mentions v
arious techniques to appl
y in s
tating w
hat an author s
aid and
your respon
se to
the author. As was
reco
mmended for the
response
ess
ay, it
is recom
mended
that
you r
ead
through that c
hapter so t
hat you m
ight appl
y these
techniques to this ess
ay.
Sub
mitting the assig
nm
ent:
Please post a ro
ugh d
raft
of your Personal Res
earch Nar
rative ess
ay as
your
ins
tructor directs
you b
y the d
ue date
your
ins
tructor provides. Aft
er re
ceiv
ing feed
back on
your response
ess
ay,
please use the
com
ments from
your instructor to h
elp
you to as
sess
your o
wn ro
ugh draft.
Please post
your subsequ
ent draft of the P
ersonal
Research
Na
rrat
ive as
your ins
tructor directs
you. The
number of dra
fts you wri
te will de
pend
on
your instr
ucto
r's a
rrangement as well
as
your t
imeliness in subm
itting the ass
ignment.
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