Genres in Research

In class I enjoyed being able to see the different genres we can use in our research. My partner and I decided to do a movie review of B .F. Skinner. I feel we did a good job. The project we did in class gave me so many more ideas. At first I wasn't sure how to turn my topic into a different genre, but I think I get it now.

I may do an interview with teachers and B.F Skinner. Or maybe I'll do a survey.
I'm not sure exactly what I am going to do, but I feel that I have better understanding of what we can do.

Oh The Stories They Will Tell

As I walked around the room I asked students what they were writing about. Some would be more than ecstatic to show me their work, others were a bit more timid. As i read the different stories around the room I found that many had such sorrowful tales to tell. One student wrote about how his aunt died the day after Christmas. Another told of her dad losing his job. And, perhaps the saddest of them all was a girls story of how her dad died when she was young and her mother lost her job and her dog ran away and how her uncle was now living with them but that he was expected to die soon as well. I didn't know what to say. How tragic it must be to live in this students shoes. Children are such precious things, they shouldn't have to face the tragedies of this world.
Kids have so many stories to tell. Writing becomes a venue for the sad tragedies of their lives, but also the joy in their lives.
Aside from the sad, sad tales, I found stories of adventure and travel.
It's amazing what a young kid can experience and write about.
This experience only strengthens the need for a writers workshop.

My Multigenre Research Paper

I think I've decided on a topic for my research paper. I will more than likely write about conditioning and manipulation in our everyday lives and society. My last research paper was in high school, I wrote about a "sadistic society" in which i used to psychology to explain and show how everyone can be and are sadistic. So i thought maybe I should write an opposite on masochism, but I felt that would be too similar to my last paper and that i should focus on a different topic. Though maybe i will write about masochism in my own time. Who knows?