This all started out with just an idea, as I thought about it there was many things on my mind about the subject. Students taking the time to learn multiple instruments, I thought this topic couldn't be stopped. So I decided to make this my research topic for this project. I started out with a little assignment to come up with two pages to worth to talk about and a few cited sources to cover. After finally sinking my teeth into this project I found a list of sources that I will have listed below to talk about my topic also. The biggest challenge in this step is that my topic does not have a lot of professional articles written about it, when it most certainly should be a think in the world of music education. I pulled a lot of my sources from the people which doesn't mean they are bad, it just means they are bias or could have a lack of knowledge on the subject they are talking about. However it's important to hear what the people still say, most of these are current students talking about their influences with music in their early childhood with multiple instruments. A lot of these other sources are actual teachers and musicians talking about their influences from learning how to play multiple instruments. Finally it was time to get started on writing the paper, this was actually the easy part. Most of my hard work was put into finding the sources after I did the reading it was just trying to find a way to make it all flow together and organize it into one paper. I decided to touch on all of my sources somewhere in my paper, it wasn't that hard because a lot of these points overlapped so discussing one topic would also reflect in discuss that in 3 other articles. I didn't have a specific order for what I talked about in the paper, I knew I want to talk about my future research last because it about what i'm going to be thinking about in the future. Over the semester this project was always a little nerve wracking to think about, it became very difficult once I actually got to work but now that I finally see the full product I am glad I did it. I think it was hard because I felt like I pulled sources out of thin air sometimes. Also I had to talk about them in my paper so it worried me I didn't do very good research when in fact I did do good research I just didn't find scholarly articles. It's important to find those outlets but you have to listen to the people sometime too. I ended up then getting out of a rut and really started putting it all together and it looked great.
I think I didn't have a lot of limitations to myself on my paper when I was writing it, I was pretty sure I covered all the right bases and made sure that my points got the support they needed from the sources. After I got my sources the paper wrote itself. However, the poster was a different story. As I had to pick and choose what to put on it their was only so much, but it was easy to put together and it took less time to make. Overall I think I had an easier time designing a poster.
0 Comments
|
Brandon RhinehartHere I will be posting reflective essays and philosophical documents and other assignments Archives
December 2019
Categories |