Saturday, April 10, 2010

O Research, My research!

Our group –Amy, Qin, George, Laura and I—has already been working on our research for more than three weeks. To be honest and say, we never lack enthusiasm. In fact, most of our time was spend on aboil debate. We all have different opinions and usually can’t easily get to an agreement because for most times we just can’t convince each other.
As far as I know, our group is the only one that worked out the questionnaire before our topic was decided. So you can see our enthusiasm from that. Luckily, we have five people in our group, so when we can’t agree with each other, we have to vote. We chose our topic as ‘Privacy on Social Media’ ultimately, because we were all bored with eternal nagging debate. Then we found that our thinking had been limited to our first questionnaire, we had to do it again and find some methods to measure people’s awareness which is very difficult for us. After hard brainstorm, some of us came up with some good ideas. George always has his own thinking style and sometimes his style helps a lot. He offered a method with several questions in a series. I also offered another way to measure our data which need people to rank the options. Then our group had a really ardent discussion which lasted for nearly two hours but we didn’t solve our problems. However, our debate did have some functions. At the end of that night, we knew what we lacked.
Yesterday, three of us went to Centre Library after class to search for information. We found some books useful and interesting. To my surprised, I found that there were pencil labels in many books I need. Sometimes it appeared exactly the chapters I wanted. So I thought there may be someone doing or had already done the same research.
I like to work in our group, though sometimes I feel upset when my opinions are objected. We are a team, which means one for all, not all for one. And I know clearly that a team won’t improve without discussion and debate.

4 comments:

  1. Sympathy... I can clearly imagine what the scene is like when your group is debating. To think of it another way, it is not a bad thing. Every group has a difficult-to-read book...
    (>.<) Anyway, good luck to you.~

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  2. That's true~ Enthusiasm is very important. One of my roommates is faced with the situation where only her is active in offering ideas and opinions. So argument and debate are necessary and helpful without which improvements are hard to make. But we all need a balance...

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  3. Totally agree that it's an endless debate. Maybe it's because that everyone holds onto his/her own opinion.But I have the confidence of working out the research perfectly! Aza-aza!

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  4. Well,first of all if I am not mistaken,you published your blog late.Okay,just a joke,haha~Actually it is a unvoidable to debate in group work and it is a good chance to train your debating skill.So enjoy the process!O(∩_∩)O~

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