Research

Research is the key to a successful piece of writing. Without our research, I believe trying to come up with specific information would be quite difficult. When reading through chapter 40 alone, I can already see that through my years of writing I have skipped a few of the steps in my beginning research. That error itself, has most likely put a toll on my papers throughout the years. The research process comes along with finding online and print sources. I did not realize the importance of the steps and different kinds of ways to absorb the sources. Without the book, How to Write Anything, I would not know to annotate, summarize, paraphrase, integrate, or document my sources the way they are presented. These notes and information give me a wider variety and a broader way to present my sources in the correct way. If I have had these notes and this book earlier on, I strongly believe my writing would have been more informative and better written. I have struggled with MLA documentation and format, but now I have the steps and all I need to know about how to set the process up correctly. This will now make my research complete and will help my writing and ideas easier to achieve.