Experience of research process

So we are suppose to write a entry about our research process on Assignment #4 and #5. For this Assignment I want to choose a topic I cared about so I would have a desire to write this paper. I choose to pick the topic "Radar Cameras: Red Lights and Speeding" I am against Radar Camers and I wish their wasn't any at all. I am finding some resources on the "web" and I still need to look on the databases. Im excited to start putting this annotated bibliography together!

Choosing My Topic

I had a huge problem choosing my topic for Essay 2. After writing my paper I toatally think that I didn't choose a great topic to right about. I didn't really have any intrest in writing this paper or researching my topic. I learned that it is really hard to write a paper when you don't like the topic. For my next paper I need to pick a subject that I would enjoy writing about. I hope by using this method my next paper will be alot eaiser to write and I will enjoy it.

Motivation

I decided to write on the Topic of "Motivation" by English Nation which can be found here.

I believe that motivation is different for each person. Some people have more motivation than others. It's the "internal drive" some may say. I believe if you have to truley want something and believe you can achieve something to be motivated by it.

For me, I can be very self motivational. Which means my "drive" dosen't come from other people, it comes from me. If i really want to achieve something I am going to put 100% percent into what ever I do. I understand that other people arn't the same as me and thats fine. People have different motivation that others.

"We want instant gratification. The easy way out. What about the saying "No pain no Gain", or that the things in life that are worth it are the ones that you have to work for." - English Nation

I totally agree with this statement. I think alot of peole do want the easy way out of things. We need to be able to work for things in our lives. It gives us a sense of pride in the end.

Assignment 1: Letter to Editor and Analysis

Letter to Editor

Dear Richard Hoffer,

As a baseball player in college, I really enjoyed reading your article “Rocket’s Red Glare” in the recent issue of Sports Illustrated. The topic of Roger Clemens acting with outrage for being accused of steroids intrigued me. I totally agree with your statement “too many of them have lied for too long.”

As a role model to children and teenagers all over the world these baseball players are setting bad examples for the next generation. I have seen athletes inject and swallow pills while getting away with it like nothing happened. I understand that all athletes want to become stronger and faster. However, taking steroids to make this happen is not the smart way to go about it. With the recent Mitchell report that is putting at least one player from every professional team on the steroid list, the situation is only getting worse. Now that Congress is stepping in on the steroid scandal I believe that there will be a great decline in the steroid users. For having a friend that got kicked off my high school team for using steroids I know the effects it has. He was college bound and the steroids shattered his dreams. Whether its teenagers or professional athletes, we just need to play the game the clean and fun way, steroid free.

Thanks for sharing your story in this Magazine. I am sure it will teach others steroids are not something to mess with. The struggle for absolutely no steroid users in professional sports is still a long ways away, but I know it will happen some day.

Sincerely,
Ryan Leasure

Analysis

First off, so people would actually listen to what I had to say I tried to state some credibility. I tried to achieve this by saying I am an athlete and I play baseball. Since I have seen athletes use steroids, I was hoping that this would also give me enough creditability for them to listen to what I had to say. My ethos, or credibility, I believe was the toughest part for me to achieve in this paper. I know that this is one of the most important parts so I really concentrated on what I had to offer.

For the audience, I pictured that most of the readers of Sports Illustrated are athletes themselves or some kind of a sports fan. I had a lot of trouble coming up with the type of crowd I needed to write too. It didn’t feel right too “praise” the steroid users that were in the audience. Then I realized that the majority of my audiences are going to be against steroids in the first place so I had to write to a sympathetic crowd. Instead of having to put common ground for both crowds I just needed to relate to the “steroid-haters” as best as I can.

The purpose and occasion of me writing this paper is because I see too many people that take steroids and get away with it. I want to show that taking steroids is a bad choice and it has horrible consequences. For pathos, I put the story in their about my friend because I wanted them to feel and understand where I come from. My tone for the paper was serious and that’s exactly what I was going for. I wanted to sound very professional and not just a baseball player that had no idea what he was talking about.

The process of my paper wasn’t as tricky as I thought it was going to be. I first thought of examples from my personal experience from being an athlete. The story of my friend has always been in my head and so I finally got to put in down on paper. Shaping the paper was a little hard for me. I had a hard time putting things were they belonged so what I wanted to say come across through the paper. Since most of the letters are mostly around 200 words I know where I stood in length for my letter. Once I started to write most of it just came to me.