When I began research for my baby mobile build, I surely thought to myself, this should be as easy as pie. However, it didn’t take long for me to realize that this wasn’t the case. Research on something you're trying to make is really hard, (who knew!), and it seems like I can never come up with the right “key words” to find what I am looking for, or if I do I might find one or two articles that help me in my research and then I start all over in finding another “keyword” for another article. At first this process was intriguing and fun! Now it seems vigorous and taunting. Not my favorite research projects thus far, but maybe when I begin building and find questions as I build that might give me my “key words”, I’ll feel a different way. After all, isn’t the worst part of all research projects finding the research? It is for me.
In other research papers I’ve done, the worst a part of finding the research is going through the articles to find if they help win over you argument or not. This paper’s hard part is just finding articles. However, in both, my favorite part is reading what I find. For example, when I was researching Abraham Lincoln, I found billions of articles about him, and, therefore, learned so much. I found out that his mother died when he was young and his sister and his wife were named Sarah, and a lot more. I loved it.
In this paper, although finding it to be difficult, I have learned a lot about the look of babies rooms and am finding it quite interesting. Like did you know that babies rooms weren’t done by theme and color, pink and blue, until the 60s? Before then the room was made to be mostly neutrals: cream, white, gray, etc, and might have some teddy bears or angels in them. The sixties is when babies began to be, what the article I’m reading refer to as, “stereotyped”.
http://swra.oxfordjournals.org/content/20/1/7.short
I still have a bunch of research to do, but I hope to find more great finds and I hope that it gets easier.
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