So, the great time of the school year has come where I have to write an insanely boring research paper. Hopefully it won’t be as hard this year since I take journalism and have to interview people all the time…and I thought I’d do something alarm related, because, why not?
But anyways, our topic is as follows (I’m just gonna paste the guidelines up here for those giving me ideas…)
April 6 (that’s tomorrow): Bring MacBook: Topic and thesis due at the beginning of class
[/quote]
There’s obviously tons of places to go with this…but what I hate about this english class is they limit so many of your options because they’re not ‘scholarly’ enough…now that’s kind of debatable, but whatever. At least they didn’t not permit internet sources in their entirety.
The limits on sources are: (here we go again)
So, what websites do you all recommend I use? I’m gonna use my state resources but not real sure how I can use alarm manufacturers/companies because they’re not ‘sources’…I’m gonna try and debate that out with my english teacher and see what he says.
I can use NFPA, because that’s a .org, but what would I write about? Code fragments?!
And how in the world would I do this ‘interview’? It’s not like if I call someplace like SimplexGrinnell and talk to someone in the field that they’re gonna say yes…even if my school district has a 45 year history with them anyways. And something I learned in my journalism class is when you contact a professional out in the field (and something my english teacher was wrong about), is that you NEVER, EVER state that you’re a high school student…why? Because school matters are considered unimportant to professionals and they never get back to you, because honestly, it’s really not their issue to deal with in the first place.
With all that being said, anyone got any ideas where I even should begin? I don’t want to do a boring topic, because that just makes the whole assignment boring; and I’m gonna be working on this for at least the next month or so.
Thanks everyone!