A lesson. 15th October.

We had a ARW class in PC room and we learned how to use Zotero in our essay again.
When we write essay in English, we have to write references in English as well.
However, some of us chose our essay theme from Japanese issues, and sometimes there is a few articles or journals about Japanese issues in English.
we are looking for articles which would support our essay in Japanese, even in that case, we should write references in English.
So, we have to write the article title in Romaji and translate by ourselves.

Actually, sometimes I feel difficulties about searching articles or journals in English.
We Japanese used to see Japanese word and we can find only important point in long sentences when that article is written in Japanese.
When I search articles for my essay, it takes a lot of time to find articles which I actually need.
Of course, I can search easy question in English like " how many people speak English in the world".
However when I wanna search article for academic essay, it would be more difficult and complex question.
So I tend to put Japanese in the space for searching.

And also, my essay theme is "Rakuten's challenge to make standard English as official language", so it's difficult to find article about my essay theme written in English.
Sometimes, I wonder when I try to write essay about Japanese issue, why do I have to write my essay in English? My essay won't publish around world.
I know, I have to prepare to be international student and publish my opinion to the world.
In this case, should I choose essay theme related with international issues? Even if I wanna write and research about Japanese tinny issue


Probably, all of us could learn a lesson which we have to do our job systematically. We should be college student. We should corporate with partners.
We have no excuse for our laziness.