Favorite line or passage?
“Then I see the small Renault of the Florence polizia driving slowly down an adjacent street, where two officers sit stiffly in their crisp blue uniforms and white leather belts; the police seem bored, indifferent, and not even remotely interested in the sudden flight their slow passage through the square inspires.”
Copy a passage that uses outside research.
“Pigeons seem to inspire such paradoxical feelings. Pigeon racers in the Bronx tenderly kiss the beaks of their birds, finally home after flying 500 miles to their lofts after a remarkable feat of solar navigation (Blechman). Meanwhile, pigeon haters host Web sites like Pigeonsmakemesick.com and propose plans for ridding cities of the “vermin”, including the tactical use of tennis rackets and loaves of bread (Thorne).”
Composing, in your own words, what you think is the main idea or thesis of the essay. Begin by speculating about exactly what central question seemed to be behind the essay.
I believe this essay circles around the compare and contrast side of the beauty of pigeons and learning knowledge about them and how they are overall considered beautiful. This essay also displays facts and analyzes their behavior.
When you write your research essay, what techniques could you use to keep the essay interesting to readers even though it is facts-based?
When I write an essay I think it would help to use great visualization, like that which is demonstrated in “The Bothersome Beauty of Pigeons” essay. It read almost like a story in a few paragraph which helped me picture everything so easily. I really enjoyed that and I will try to incorporate more of that in my own writing. As long as the facts are not few and far between, why not spice it up and make the readers mind soar?
In what way is the essay unlike what you understood to be a research paper?
Once I read that essay I completely changed my view of the “proper” way to write a research paper! I have always WANTED to write like that but I didn’t think it was acceptable so I resisted the urge. I am so excited to see that this is not only acceptable but praise-worthy and will definitely be attempting this in the future. This definitely changes my mood towards research and how I feel it should be approached.
Explore your thoughts about the contents of the essay. Did you find you could relate in some way to what the essay seemed to say?
I could certainly relate to the essay in more ways than one. I constantly battle with my love-hate feelings for pigeons, mostly love.
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