This, Too, Is Research

Melissa writes about research for inspiration and research for learning.

When she writes about research for inspiration, she says that "newspaper headlines, overheard conversations, and even the local phone book" is considered as a writers inspiration. When she discusses inspiration, she considers that this affects the "richness" and "texture" of their writing. This comes from the freedom of research and thought to write as they please. Some of the questions she asks is "what is your garbage? What do those items say about you as a person? If a stranger were to fin d your credit card bill, what would she know about you? This is how it is for writing because you are writing about what inspires you. to do this you can use personal experiences and this relates to what personal preferences are shown on credit card bills.

In research for learning, Melissa mentions that often times research is over looked since it isn't in a formal type citation but the research is there. This research is used to learn about whatever you are writing and this applies for short stories, essays and poems. She reiterates the end of her writing by saying that research isn't only n the form of books and the web. It is through real life experiences as well such as peeling an orange and running through the rain.

For the last project I used research of enhancing memories more than any other research because it was coming from my memory. She mentions that you write as if the reader never had that experience such as the lizard she wrote about, that the reader never saw that lizard.