Research Papers

Research Papers. I don't have much to say about them. I've only done a few in my educational career and I never really was the one doing it, my partner was. Although I may find what I'm researching interesting and awesome, I hate putting it on paper. I know I will have to grow up and get over it. I really don't like writing papers in the first place. I find them dull and boring. When I try to sneak humor into the paper I use it wrong and get side tracked. I'd much rather write or tell stories, but we all know that's not how life is.

Response after reading "Why Do Academics Continue to Insist on 'Proper' English?"

Like Dennis Brown, the writer of the article, I also think why do academics continue to teach proper English and scold us when we use "our own" English. I think they should teach us how to use proper English but not scold us for diverting from it. Now if we divert from proper English to the point where we make no sense or it is hard to understand what we are trying to say, they should show us and teach us how to make more sense or make our English more easily understood.

But I also feel like if our academic society accepted the use of improper English, then we wouldn't have the diversity in our language that we do now. Some of the reason we divert from proper English is because we find it annoying to follow all of the rules and we want it simpler. Why say ten words when you can say the same thing in two. Another reason may be because they want to "stick it to the man." People break rules just to break rules, or because they don't like those certain rules. So if our academic society was more loose on how we use grammar, how we punctuate, and how we speak then I feel there would be less diversity because people would be less inclined to short hand the language and "break the rules" so to speak. 

Western Michigan University...yeah more like Western Michigan Diversity

After the obese amount of research that I have not done I have concluded that WMU is very diverse in it's students. Just by walking around campus you can see people of all sorts of nationalities. In my opinion that's pretty sweet. I remember at Fall Welcome this year at the induction ceremony they mentioned how big the foreign exchange program is. I also remember seeing in miller tons of flags from all over the world hanging up. So, not to make an ass out of myself, assume that Western takes a lot of pride in the diversity at their institution. Not just in nationality and race but with everyone attending the university.