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Image of my brainstorm from Notes.

Hi guys, it is me again! 

For this blog, I will talk about how I will plan my research strategy for our Writing Project. The first topic that I decided to write about is Gameplay, focusing especially on the Hierarchy of Challenges in a game. I remember we read an article about this topic during the last semester and I was really interested in it. A topic such as how the level of difficulty can affect the player mentally and how do we plan it really stood out to me. I am looking forward to doing my research and being able to write a book about it!

This week, a staff from the Library, Lindsay, visited us during our lecture to talk about how the online library site could help us gather information for our writing project. She also went through the website of the Library such as how to use it, how to borrow a book online, and most importantly, she showed us how to reference correctly and organize our work in an easier way by using RefWorks which was very helpful as well.

I decided that I will use a bit of the Matrix method to organize my research because I am not that good at managing my work. I might also use RefWorks to gather my research from the library and verified articles from google. The image above is a brainstorm about my chosen topic. I tried to think of keywords and some information that I remembered from the last semester. The amount of work given only increased the amount of pressure I had but I then realized the if took everything step by step at a time, I did not realize that I already completed most of the work. Therefore, for this semester I will try to encourage myself to do well like last semester!



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