Week 9: Reflecting on my research

Reflecting on my research, I think the hardest thing has been trying to find valuable, pertinent sources that I approve of.  I've found myself searching hours on end for sources that I like.  I read several sources that I didn't even use for my Annotated Bibliography because I didn't think they were good enough.  The easiest thing has been describing my personal experiences with Cru.  If I could start my research process over, I would have read a lot more of the book I borrowed from Bracken.  I couldn't read it all because another student needed it and I had to return it.  The book I borrowed was pretty much an ethnography about Cru.  What I read of it never stated: "this is an ethnography of Campus Crusade for Christ" but the author did mention that he was an outsider of Cru. 

Having kept a blog I can look back at questions I had and see if those questions were answered for my research.  Also, my blog entries will aid me in writing my mini-ethnography because I can look back at the things I was struggling with, the things I was confident about, etc.  For example, I could compare the amount of information I knew at the beginning of my research process to the information I obtain at the end.  In addition, I could see how difficult I thought the research process would be and what my perception of Cru was then, compared to the time I end my research.