Research Challenge

The greatest part regarding this post was I finally knew exactly what I would write about, my history course. I take HIST195 and every class we have an assigned reading to do (prior to class) and write roughly a two page paper analyzing/reflecting the readings. The one problem though is the documents are written in old english; basically American history begining the semester with readings such as The Mayflower Compact and onward through slavery and the United States Constitution up to recent history. These readings tend to be lengthy, which doesn't bother me as much, and in grammar that doesn't allow for an uptempo reading pace. The vocabulary isn't something that you tend to read on a regular basis making these papers difficult for me. I often find myself rereading certain parts of articles and struggle to traslate into my own words often leaving me frustrated staring at my blank word document. In the back of my mind I know that these aren't supposed to be perfect papers but more or less our take on the reading, yet when I write a paper not specifically articulating the message I'm attempting to convey bothers me. I complete my papers, but I feel that I'm spending way too much time on them and I'm beginning to dread each one.....