Exercise 1

Hello Fellow bloggers and classmates,
 On this first exercise, Bruce Ballenger, the author of " Curious Researcher" asks us to think of a topic and write on our beliefs on it. We are to write 3 minutes non stop no matter how messy it gets, so here I go.
      I chose the topic of my beliefs on marriage and how it may be( I've never been on a relationship so bare with me.)
       Marriage is probably the hardest decision you will take.  Marriage is when 2 people find love, compatibility, and similarites together to the point where they think they can spend the rest of their lives together. Some deal breakers is whether they want to have kids, adopt, live in the city, or in the country, or other life changing decisions....

Well that's all I could think of in three minute. I believe I psyched myself out because I timed myself and I felt like I needed to know everything on my topic without using past experiences.

Step two in this exercise, Ballenger asks us to pick from a ray of topics and do the same type of fast writing as I did above. Only this time, we are allowed to use our own experiences instead of thinking we are to write an essay for our English class.

The topic I chose was " When two experts disagree, one of them has to be wrong"

I will have to disagree with this because both statements can be either true or false. Based on the research or evidence both experts bring to the table will determine the correct one. Both experts can also be both right based on someone else's perspective on what the expert has to say. They can also be wrong now depending on what evidence they have and later be right based on this constantly updating world. Once as a kid, I got in trouble because I cleaned my room before I went to school but it was dirty when I got there. It was a lie until I found my self in the same situation, but this time I found my sneaky dog messing up my room...

That was all I could do in three minutes. I felt more confident in this one because I was allowed to embed my past experiences in it and i was a bit more passionate about this topic.

Be Blessed,
Jess Guzman