Starting to Write the Draft: Beginning at the Beginning

Three Ways In

Try to write the introduction in 3 different ways to exam yourself and develop the starting point in your research project

My consideration as below:

   1. Sometimes I watch the scientific fiction movie and feel exciting about the unrealistic things. For example, the one of famous box office movie "Matrix" is the movie based on what will be happening in our future society. There is the one, which is not a human being, supercomputer rules the human society in future. The movie shows that machines put all human beings in one place to control their mind. All human beings are no longer to live in real life but the virtual image of life which the supercomputer creates.

   2. The anti-Christian movements are getting more diffusion and cruel in Middle East. Recently, more than 50 churches in Egypt have been targeted and the attacks have continued since August 14. Now, almost less than 10 percent of Christians survives in threaten of anti-Christian Egyptians. The Muslim's fanatic faith in their god "Allah", concludes the result of violent. Their way of evangelism is not based on love but forcing that it seems there is no peace and liberalism. A common sense I find between the anti-Christian movements in Middle East and the "Blue Chip" is controlling with threatening.

   3. The foundation of the United States of America is based on the Christian belief. Some godly people settled down in America to seek the religious freedom from the corruption in Europe. Now the "Liberty" and "Equality" provides good opportunity for everybody in America. Therefore many people seeks the success life in American as well knows as we call "the American Dream." The capitalism and secularism has been marched so fast as our society has developed. Now we are seeking our own comfort that our focus is on how to live more convenient and joyful which creates extreamely individualism. It is all about our life in the earth that we only care about our outward. The motivation of Christian belief is no longer essential for our life that we do not care about our spiritual things. I believe the "blue chip" will be the fulfillment of our satisfaction that most people will follow its system. We will be under controlled of the one who is anti-Christian.

It is very important moment which is the beginning that i need to have right direction before I go into my whole research paper.
Three different ways of composing help me to have different perspectives that I can choose more fluent way for the body of my research paper.

Preparing to Write Draft

Sharpening Your Point

What is your thesis in your research?

Just like the earlier stage 1, it is important to re-identify your thesis of your research before getting into the draft writing.
The list of questions of value on page 158 of the Curious Researcher, by Bruce Ballenger, will help you to specify your idea to draw out a main point.

As I choose a Relationship Question to apply in my research topic, I can restate my thesis:

     There is a strong relationship between the eschatology based on the Christian worldview and the motivation of the system of the "Blue Chip."

Getting to the Draft

Dialogue with Readers

Have interviewing about your topic to develop the main idea in your writing

Step 1: Readers want to know their intention of the topic you're writing about. Answer the following questions to reaffirm your topic and supports.

     * Topic: the Blue Chip
    
     - Why? It is very important in Christian's perspective.
     - Where? Possibility in the whole World
     - Who? For everybody
     - When? Happening today
     - What? Anti-Christian
     - What do you mean by the Blue Chip? It is the microchip designed to plant into human body and use as individual's ID.
     - How do most people see this? How do you see if differently? So far, it is not familiar to many people, but I think it will become very common thing like cellular phone in future.
     - Are you kidding? I didn't know that. What else did you find out? Based on the Bible, some Christians interpret its motivation as anti-Christian.
     - Can you give me an example? I think it is the similar idea of the Facebook. Because most people has an account for the Facebook that we put our basic personal information and all the records show what, where, when and who did we do something. There is the one who can control all of our personal matters.
     - Did that surprise you? Yes, it did surprise me very much.
     - What other questions does this raise? As a Christian, how can we solve this matter?
     - who does this affect, mostly? I heard that this movement will happening in poor country for experiment.
     - What should we do about this? We need to be aware what is going on in the world with this thing and have a right perspective on this matter.
     - I'm not sure I believe this. Why do you? It is already happening in the world that you don't have to believe it.
     - What do you think we should do about it? Again. We need to be serious what is going on in the world with this thing and need to think about our future and our next generation.

Step 2: Final Question

     - Based on everything you've learned so far, what's your point? As a Christian, we need to reset the Christian world view and see the flow or pattern of what is going on the world.

Answering the questions about your topic is  very helpful to organize your ideas before you construct the whole essay. 

Advanced Internet Research Techniques

Academic Research on the Internet

How can I use internet sources efficiently to improve my research project?

3 key things:
  
   - By multiply searching ranges can increase your coverage
   - Develop subject directories can make your topic more specific
   - Using more keywords to search can bring better response

Step 1: Using some of the keyword combinations you developed for your topic with the general search engines as shown. (Alta Vista, Ask.com, Bing, Google, Hobot, Lycos, Yahoo)

   * the keyword combinations: "anti-Christ & Supercomputer"
     
   - Google: http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/b/beastofbelgium.htm#.UnxiQxX3S00
   - Bing: http://www.faithwriters.com/article-details.php?id=46452

Step 2: Launch a search on one or more of the metasearch engines as shown. (Dogpile, Mamma, Search.com, SurfWax, Yippy)

   - Dogpile: http://cuttingedge.org/n1043.html
   - SurfWax: http://signpostsofthetimes.blogspot.com/2011/10/us-supercomputer-gaining-speed.html

Step 3: Visit Noodletools (http://www.noodletools.com/), Find the link for "Choose the Best Search", Find a search engine you haven't tried before.

   - Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_beast_(Revelation)
   - Sweet Search: http://www.christianbook.com/shadow-government-secret-global-surveillance-against/grant-jeffrey/9781400074426/pd/074426

Every steps above give us a lot of help for our research project! 

Possible Purposes for a Research Assignment

Research Proposal

By following the last exercise, I narrowed down my topic for "Blue Chip".
Now, draw outlines for the research plan by a brief proposal

How significant to craft questions for building up the research project?

1st Proposal: Inquiry Question

   - What is the motivation to create the blue chip?

2nd Proposal: Primary Purpose

   A. Explore: what are additional questions that most interest you and might help you discover the answer to your research question?
   
      - What is the actual meaning of the blue chip?
      - When and where did the blue chip invent?
      - What is the background of the blue chip?
      - What is the weak and strong point of the blue chip?
      - How is the blue chip matter with our society?
      - What is the Christian point of view on the blue chip?
      - What is final goal for the blue chip?

   B. Argue: What theory or hypothesis about your topic are you testing? What is your tentative main claim or thesis?

 

      - Based on the Christian perspective, I like to figure the relationship between eschatology and the blue chip. I agree with many Christians who believe that the movement of the blue chip is one of strong symptom for the end of the world which Christ is coming soon.

 

3rd Proposal:

 

   A. What, if any, prior beliefs, assumptions, preconceptions, ideas, or prejudices do you bring to this project?

     

      - As follow the Jesus saying in Matthew 24:36, I've not been believed all the humors of the end of the earth. However I agree with the description of symptoms of the end of century in the Bible is almost fitting in our world now.

 

   B. What personal experiences may have shaped the way you feel?

     

      - I lost my wallet few month ago and I had to go through tough process to make up all things I lost in my wallet. For example I was not allow to go to somewhere without the driver's license, and to buy something without the credit card. I noticed that I can be meaningless in this society without those small things in my pocket. The world in going to makes things convenience more and more, but we might get into trap with those comfort. I thing the blue chip can be almost integer thing for anti-Christ who can control the world in his hand.

 

   C. Before you began developing working knowledge on the topic, what were you thinking about it? What are you think about it now?

 

      - I think I choose a heavy topic that I need a lot of research or I should change my topic.