Fourth Blog

While writing this blog I have really learned the importance of obtaining information and being able to write about my topic for my peers and teacher to comment on. I really like how it is not only open to where my peers can look at it but also, anyone else who has a blogger account and he or she can follow me. The importance of this blog and what I have learned is that detailed research is the key to writing this blog. If I would have just winged it when it came to my research, I would have not been able to write as much and the blogs would have been less detailed. My writing process has changed a little because in the aspect of me being able to pull more information out of my resources and putting them on my blog and expanding on the information to let my peers and teacher know what I am writing about. My inquiries that I had for my topic have not really changed because I have just expanded on those questions not really changed them.

The genre of blogging we are using for this research project is really helpful for our process which allows our peers and teacher to respond to what we are writing about and what we are researching for that particular week. The coolest thing to me, not being the blogger type of person, it’s pretty cool that I am writing all of this and anyone can read about this and respond. Blogging is something I could actually see getting myself into, if it was something I would lile to write about like firefighting tactics or something to do with firefighting. To sum up all of these main points about blogging, it has helped me a lot because after I have sat down and researched my topics I go and reread some of my points and write about them on blogger. This allows me to refresh my mind and look at the information in a different aspect.

Third Post

1)      I’ll be writing to the readers that will read my paper including Ms. Ingram, and my classmates. I think I can go with my classmates and peers being my audience because those are who I am talking to about this paper and research to get their input. Yes I can see how my topic is timely because of the way the studies I have been researching are changing with this day and age. I’m invested in this topic because this is a big subject. I’ve been raised in church and sex before marriage is frowned upon but sex is proven to help with stress relief and good for the body. My high school teachers were crazy and had us write about topics without any personal investment to see how much we knew about pointless subject and people like Shakespeare and The Odyssey. College teachers actually want to hear and read what we have to say and think about our subject we are writing about.

2)      Yes, I’m starting to see a lot of different viewpoints in my research based on:

-Religion

-Race

-Gays

-Men

-Women

3)      Well I learned in my research this week that a lot of old people are encouraged to have sex because it is good for their heart, blood pressure, and keeps the hormones balance in check in their body. I’ve learned this is no easy way of researching last minute and needs to be detailed in order to research accurately.

4)      I commented on Hunter Greene's blog post.

Second Blog

1) The most interesting source so far that I have found was “5 Reasons to have sex today”. The source is a health website pertaining to food, health, pets, spiritual, and love and sex. The author of this article is Veronica Peterson. This article is interesting because it describes all the aspects of sex to physical needs, and also why it is good for emotions and day to day life. The article lists 5 reasons that sex is healthy and why this is a good thing for people. Sex boosts your immune system by allowing the person to relieve stress which is sometimes can cause major headaches. Sex also burns calories because this is a physical activity that burns fat. Third, sex relieves pain by allowing a partner to have an orgasm, which is a major narcotic which contains oxytocin which is produced by the body. Sex decreases aging because regular sex releases a lot of so called good chemicals into your bloodstream which allows your body to develop healthier. Lastly, sex is great for depression because the release from an orgasm makes a person very relaxed and feels a lot better. These were the five reasons that I found on the website, which was my first source that explains why sex is good and also provides stress relief.

2) As I continued to research, the main topic has not changed. I’ve looked over my inquiry questions but haven’t really revised my questions, because most of them in trying to research. I’m narrowing the questions down, for example asking the question “Is sex bad for some people?”, I’m researching why it is bad or what makes it not good for someone. The narrowing of my scope on my topic will allow me to learn more about the topic, help me to understand the research I gathered, and to help me write the paper better with a better understanding of my topic.

3) I’m facing the challenge of finding sources that directly relates to stress relief. In most of the sources I’m coming across, I’m finding sex studies that deal with age and stuff that is too much information to know. I’m addressing these challenges by being careful about what I put in the search bar on Google. I really don’t have so called “tips” to give my peers other than focus on your topic and don’t be too broad when researching. I guess I’m trying to say, be detailed when you are researching your topic so you can get better information.

First Blog

1) My research question is "Is sex a stress reliever?"
2) I settled with this question because I thought it was interesting. Were college kids and everyone is experimenting and wondering if this actually helps with stress.
3) My topic is timely because there are a lot of resources in the library and studies performed by universities all over the world. It is important to address the topic because everyone has some stress some with more than others and most people have sex. People should care because stress often refers people making poor decisions and everybody thinks about sex.
4) I expect to find experiments done, surveys taken, and other necessary research taken by the different agencies involved in the study. I have typed in Google and the library website and most of the sites were from universities.
5) Yes, I have come across scholars and Ph.D. that have studied this question and have written reports about the subject pertaining to sex and stress. They are finding that are it is a stress reliever and a lot of people are using this as a stress reliever according to some surveys I have looked at on Google posted by universities in their studies. There are a lot of different viewpoints. I'm writing in my view point and in my viewpoint only. If the reader does not like what I am writing about then stop reading it! I stand on the issue that it does provide stress relief and incases make a person more relaxed. I honestly don't know if my mind will change later in the semester, but honestly I do not think so.
6) The only question I have is about how exactly how to format the paper.