About My Paper--Final Week is Comming

This semester, I am taking a great effort in researching and writing the paper titled "How Does Visual Communication Influences Your Children--The Secret of Advertising". I have found some writing rules and interesting tactics in writing process. These new discovery helped me to keep thinking and keep typing, the same with the Blog Name "Doris Keeps Typing". It is really a approach to improve writing skills and increasing the mood in writing.

To tell the truth, I don't like research paper. I guess most students at my age have the same feeling. I always thought that research papers are written by very experienced and advanced scholors who study some particular subjects. Further more, it takes a lot of time in researching and formatting my APA. Seems to be wasting time in the format.

Things changed a lot at the middle of the semester. When I was preparing for the podcast, I got a lot of information and found it not that boring to search for academic journals and scholars. The reason is I became interested in what I was doing. Interest is the best teacher, I guess. Because it comes with me all the time I eager to know more about my topic. Finally, I found that researching is not only for completing the paper, but also for improving oneself.

At the beginning, I research for what I need to use in my paper. Now I research for what is related with my paper, and read it through, reference is from its idea, not just the information. If I don't think about it, I cannot get the idea, nor to use it in my paper.

I think the most inficient way to write a research paper is that read, read, read, and read as much as I can before referencing. There is a story: one can give another a cup of water only when he or she has a dousin cans of water. To read more is a process of collecting water.

Harvest season for this semester is coming. I hope to collect enough "water" before the final week. There is still a lot ot work to do.
Thank you, my teacher and my TA.
I appreciate your help!