Paradigm

I was doing so much work on all those articles last night that I fell asleep before I remembered to do a blog. My bad. So Paradigm. The definition according to Dictionary.com is "one that serves as a pattern or a model." In relation to the article, I can only assume that this means we are supposed to use it as a paradigm for our papers. All of the articles in the Atlantic were written really well. The structure of the articles was very easy to follow and serves as a great model for what we are supposed to be doing. After talking about it in class today, it's a little less intimidating. Now I can just re-read these articles and take notes on how they are written, what they focus on, and how I can relate them to my own paper.

My topic of consolidation is quite a bit harder than I thought it would be. I chose consolidation because it was the only topic I really had an opinion about. Although I didn't and still don't know a whole lot about the subject, I knew what seemed to be a logical conclusion to the issue. However, it has been a lot harder to find information that is reliable. Most of the things I am finding are people's opinions and are not fact-based. Hopefully I can find something in the books that we were given a list of. Also, re-reading these articles in the Atlantic should help me in organizing my paper.