Effective Research Method

Ok ok, once again, life has gotten in the way of posting a new laugh for your day – but the wait is over!  Here we go... I hope you find this not only amusing, but helpful for all future research pursuits.  

So in the Spring of 2009 I was taking an awful awful awful class that I dreaded on a weekly basis.  It was my Research Methods course, a requirement for my program, and was one of the most painful classes I have ever had to endure.  Anyways, as these things usually go, when we don’t like a course we procrastinate getting work done for the course because we know it will be painful.   There was one day in particular that I had an impending deadline and was just dragging my feet to get the paper done.  Jenn was bored at work (gasp! That never happens) so to cure her boredom, I suggested she write my paper for me.

Jennifer: bored bored bored

me: :(

  youve got mail!

Jennifer: aw - yay!!

me: hehe

Jennifer: lalalaaaaaaaaaaaaa

me: beooootiful!

  you wanna write my paper for me?

Jennifer: what it's on?

  wow...that's good grammar..sure you want me to write it? haha

me: lol

me: its for my research methods class

  so its crap

Jennifer: hah - i can write crap ;)

me: alright!

  go!

  you need to talk about your literature review (at least 10 articles)

  what your research question is

  and how you would go about doing a project

Jennifer: ok, so i reviewed some articles and i think they all suck

my question is why do they suck so bad

  and i would go about finding out the answer by hunting down the people that wrote the articles and kicking them in the head until they explained what they were thinking

aaand i'm spent

me: LOL

  i LOVE it!!

And now, thanks to this conversation, we have a fail-safe Research Method we would like to propose to you, the general public.  When faced with researching something, and the articles are not up to your standards...

Simply find the author of said research article:

And demand an explanation as to why the article is so terrible:

It's bound to be more fun than sitting in a library!!

Fine Print - Jenn and Michele do not actually endorse random acts of violence on strangers.  Only on those you know, and only in a joking manner.  ;o)