Honestly, I have not done a whole lot of research for my project yet. These past couple of weeks have been crazy; between, midterms, lab reports, and being out of town, I have not had much time to focus on this paper. Depending on what I find in the literature, I think I would like to narrow my topic to the illiteracy in a group of people who all have a certain type of disease, such as cardiovascular diseases or diabetes. I would like to focus also on miscommunication between health care professionals and the patients who have these diseases. Finally, I would like to look at what tactics health care professionals use to help patients understand their diseases.
This week in the Manguel reading, I thought his discussion of how early libraries used to organize books was interesting. They used similar organization tools like we do today, such as organizing books by categories, but I thought it was interesting when Manguel described that alphabetizing books was a practice that was not around early on. When I was younger, I had a big bookshelf in my bedroom with quite a variety of books. I think I had the worst possible way of organizing them; I organized my books by height, from tallest to shortest. This was not helpful for finding books on the shelf, but I just thought it looked nicer! I don't have many books to organize today, but I think I have grown up a bit and would probably organize them in alphabetical order rather than by height.
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I think it is kind of funny that after reading a couple of the posts, almost everyone hasn't either started research or is struggling, and I am included in that group. I myself have had a lot of other more important things to do besides this paper. And it doesn't help that it is due the weekend after Halloween and Homecoming.
On another note, I feel that your subject would be a good one. In my experiences with doctors, they treat me like I'm supposed to know all of the medical terms for my viruses, etc.
hahahah so I was pretty much going to say the same thing that I'm glad I'm not the only one who hasn't really started their research that much. And with it being Halloween weekend I'm sure were all in for a fun sunday night. See ya on monday team.
I am happy that we are all in the same situation with researching for these papers. I was very nervous before last week's class that everyone else was going to have a complete 15-page paper and that I would have basically nothing. What makes me even more frustrated is that I don't even have any time to work on it tonight.
I feel bad because I know this workshop is to help us with our papers but that feel that I will just be taking advantage of the fact that it actually isn't graded. My other papers that are due will be graded the first time and I have no opportunity to improve the grade later.
I am also really happy we are all in the same place in the research. Ive tried to get a lot done but I have had so much other work to do lately that I have just not had time to get around to it. This semester is going by so fast, finals are going to be here before we know it.
It is good to here that I am not alone in the lack of research boat. It makes me feel a lot better. The last couple of weeks have been completely saturated with midterms and since the paper is not officially due until the end of the term it just keeps getting pushed back.
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