Junior Theme Blog #5. ITS OVER!!!!!

...for now.  As all American Studies students know, hours of revisions are looming ahead of us in this upcoming month.  These torrential April showers we've been having better bring some really pretty May flowers, because I'm going to need something positive while I revise my paper.  This is the second major research paper that I have done in my life, and the two could not have been more different.  The first one was just around this time last year, and it was a research paper for geography.  This paper was 6 pages single spaced, whereas my theme was seven pages, double spaced.  One might assume that with half as many pages in the theme, it would seem easy compared to my geography paper, right?
WRONG.  In my geography paper last year, I probably had about ten sources, and a half page single-spaced to explain my source.  This meant that I could elaborately explain my sources with ease.  In my theme, I had about 20 sources, and much less space to explain them in.  Anyone can explain a quote if given enough space to explain it, but it takes an extremely skilled writer to analyze a quote in a limited amount of space.  I fear that this may be one of the problems with my paper.  I applied much too lengthy analyses to some quotes, and that means some quotes were not explained enough.  Regardless of this problem,. I am still happy to be temporarily done with my theme, but I fear that happiness won't last long.

Junior Theme Blog #4

Well, as a follow up to my last blog, I DID schedule and hold an interview, which took place on this past Sunday.  I interviewed Neil Golden, who works for McDonalds.  It ran quite smoothly.  I asked all three questions that I planned to ask, and he was not reluctant.  He answered all of my questions fully, and gave me some great info that I know I will be able to use in my paper.  The interview lasted about seventeen minutes, and I was able to record the interview with my laptop.  The only issue was that, as Franklin Roosevelt might say, he "[spoke] softly, and [carried] a big stick". The big stick would be all of the info he provided, but he did speak quietly.  I had a little bit of trouble understanding him at some points.  I have finished transcribing the entire seventeen minutes, and have already selected a couple of quotes that might fit well into my paper.  Also, in terms of the paper itself, I have an outline that contains some quotes.  My plan is to start the essay itself in the second half of this period.  Hopefully in blog #5, I will be talking about how smoothly the paper is going, but one can never be too sure...

Junior Theme Blog #3

Coming back from a week in Florida, I was bummed to be back in the 30 degree Chicago weather.  But knowing that I got to come back to my junior theme cheered me up!  My family drove to Florida, so I got to spend some good time reading up on junior theme material.  Then I got a rude awakening on Monday.  I completely spaced on the interview, and I had no clue who I was going to interview.  I am still at a loss as to who I should request an interview with.  I am probably going to do some research, but hopefully I will be able to think of someone quickly, in order to compile quotes more quickly.