Graf #8

        Admit it, the name sounds corny.  I-search.  The idea is quite new to me.  A research paper, the topic of which the writer decides.  Something one would truly be interested in, and motivated to learn more about.  These are the criteria the paper follows.  You pick the topic of interest, think about what you want to learn, and go for it.  Learn, enrich, educate.  Find out so much information about the topic the professor is paying you to stop.  Pumping out page after page of personally motivated gold.  Well maybe not necessarily pages upon pages, but you get my drift.  A true joy to put together, this essay is still… different.  Here you don’t get assigned a stale, overused topic that has been written on so many times it looks as if you just copied the entire Wikipedia article down.  No, not here.  Here you can expand on knowledge you already have, researching questions that have been taunting you, at the back of your head for as long as you can remember.  Learning might actually be fun, if it’s something you want to know more about.  And that’s exactly what’s trying to be accomplished here.  A push in the right direction, a push towards educating oneself.  Enriching your own mind, smiling the whole time.  Who would have known this is what I should have expected when I signed up for a simple composition course.