Some Random Thoughts

I have always been a "History and English student" while my roomate has always been a "Math and Science" student. I'm always willing to help my friends out with their papers. I helped my roomate go over her thoughts and produce an outline for a major paper she had to write over this weekend. After hearing her complain about how difficult it is for her to write a paper I told her about some of the interesting differences between different cultures in writing. I was hoping to make her feel better by telling her how hard it is for those who come to our University from other countries to adapt to our writing style.

Instead of making her feel better, she seemed envious. She said she wanted to write in a different style like the one I described to her. I explained to her how some cultures don't believe in the neccessaity of citing sources and explaining in details, but rather buliding onto knowledge that you can assume your reader already has established. I thought it was interesting that my roomate, who could be categorized into a different type of student, thought it would be easier to write that way. She claimed it would be better for her. Although, I'm such an English-language lover at heart I can not fathom producing papers through such a different and seemingly vauge arrangment.

Maybe this is just my roomate, but maybe it is other students as well. I still find the subject very interesting and am thinking about working on some of these ideas for a final project. But I was wondering what everyone else is considering for their projects as well.