Research for My Subculture

I have not done any research for my subculture at this time. I have recently have changed my subculture. The subculture that I will be exploring are twins. The reason for this change is because I am a twin and already know a lot about the subject. I plan on interviewing my twin sister and I also plan on interviewing someone who is not a twin. The reason for interviewing someone who is not a twin is because they might have a different perspective on the subject. I would also be interested in knowing what they think about twins. The question that I may ask my twin will be if she thinks that we are treated different because we are twins. 

I think that academic research is not different than non academic research. I believe that research on the Internet can be academic. I think that books are also apart of academic research. So I don't agree that there is such a thing as non academic research. 

Fieldsite

My subculture that I have chosen is called Kn'ect. Kn'ect is a Hall Council in Knotts Edwards hall here at Ball State University. I am not exactly sure that I want to explore this subculture for sure yet. I am in this subculture so I will not have to be an outsider looking in. The meetings take place in the first floor lounge of Knotts Edwards Hall. The meetings last an hour and are every Wednesday night at nine. This hall is a business hall for freshman. We put on a lot of programs for the business student. We also raise money for different charities. I think this subculture will be easy for me because I am very much involved in this council and the council is very self explanatory. 

My Subculture

Each day I have a routine that I do to get my day started. The main routine that is different than maybe other subcultures is that I have special TV shows that I watch everyday. I get up and watch the Today show every morning. The next show I watch is the Ellen show; it comes on every week day at eleven. From twelve to one I watch the Andy Griffith and Lucy show. Then from one to two o'clock I watch Home Improvement. The list goes on and on through out the day.  Now, that my class schedule has changed I don't get a chance to watch all my shows. Last semester I had a schedule that worked nicely with all of my classes for all of the television shows that were on during the day. This is one of my subcultures. I really enjoy watching television shows, especially older shows. I don't know of anyone else who enjoys watching television as much as I so this makes me unique. 

Paper from the Past

I have written many papers over the years. From poems, to essays, to research papers and different kinds of narratives. The one that stands out in my mind the most is a research paper on capital punishment. I wrote this paper last year as a senior in high school. The process I took to write this paper was first a thesis statement, then I did my research for the subject, next an outline, then I wrote my notes on cards, finally the paper. I don't have a method to my writing, other than just sitting down gathering my thoughts and getting the paper done. This paper consisted of three drafts. I enjoyed writing this paper even though the paper was ten pages long. I also enjoyed writing this paper because I learned about capital punishment. 

I feel that the difference between editing and revising is that there is no difference. They are one in the same. Editing and revising is making changes or altering different things. When I think of revising I think about revising papers. When I think of editing though, I think about editing movies, magazines and newspapers. I think these two words can mean something different to others but to me they are the same.