Blog #2

As we begin the research process, I cannot help but feel a little intimidated, overwhelmed, and quite frankly, scared. Although I have completed literature reviews in the past (I was an English major as an undergrad), they were never with the purpose of writing a research paper related to human research and studies. I am not sure I have what it takes to write this particular type of literature review. The terminology in our readings and identifying things such as the independent and dependent variable make my head spin… and let’s not even get started on the statistics part of it! There is an inside joke amongst english majors that you either do well in math or english but never both, and I am definitely not a numbers person. I see numbers and my brain starts to shut down. And lets not even talk about what happens when I see numbers and letters! However, I must say that going into this research process, I am comforted by the fact that my number one strength is that I am very organized and detail-oriented. I believe this will help me in the process of conducting my research, compiling it, and creating an outline for my paper. I also think having been an english major will help me because I have written many papers in my day; although, I will need to practice my APA writing because I have been programed to write in MLA for so long. Practice makes perfect, right? No better time to start than now!