Salsa dancing and research

Luker compares salsa dancing with research, and I definitely agree when he states that salsa dancing makes you hot and sweaty, because that’s exactly how I feel when I think of research. In the past, I would just look up a topic which was usually given by the professor and find articles and books on it, and then develop a research question. However, trying to develop my own research question is very challenging, and scary to imagine. We do need to be constantly questioning what we discover, and that process is can be terrifying because you may have to deter the direction of your research, which can be overwhelming when you’re almost at the end of your paper. I do have a few ideas and interests, but seeing if it’s actually a decent topic to research is somewhat of an uneasy feeling. I am not too familiar with the topics I have thought about, so making an argument can be difficult and this will have me researching a lot of material before I even decide what topic to research. So,  I ask myself, do I research a topic that I am familiar with or do I research something that I’m interested in. Time comes into play here; I am going to aim at researching a topic of interest. Salsa dancing is fun…..