{"id":798,"date":"2020-04-30T01:35:09","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T06:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/?p=798"},"modified":"2020-04-30T01:35:09","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T06:35:09","slug":"added-effort-increased-reward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/2020\/04\/30\/added-effort-increased-reward\/","title":{"rendered":"Added effort = increased reward"},"content":{"rendered":"

One thing that I\u2019ve found both exciting and challenging is sifting through all the primary source documents in French. I\u2019m currently taking French 112, so I have some basic language skills, but I\u2019m definitely not to the point where I can skim and get an accurate idea of a source\u2019s contents. For each of the papers it has been really exhausting to work through information that I can\u2019t fully comprehend without google translate or painfully-slow-but-more-rewarding “Jacob translate.” And I say rewarding because it really <\/span>is <\/span><\/i>rewarding.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Already rewarding is the synthesis or analysis of information, which often comes pretty easily to me. It\u2019s not the information itself, but the discovery of it that I have the most trouble motivating myself to work through. Even in English I often find the research portion daunting, so although adding a foreign language to the mix definitely makes research harder, it also makes the payoff more exciting.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Treasure “when I find interesting gems of knowledge it feels worth it- fun, even!” <\/span><\/h3>\n
https:\/\/www.pngitem.com\/middle\/omwhRo_treasure-chest-png-pic-pirate-treasure-box-transparent\/<\/span><\/h6>\n

It\u2019s really like digging for buried treasure. It\u2019s exhausting to keep digging in sand with no promise of reward, but when I find interesting gems of knowledge it feels worth it- fun, even! Even though it\u2019s an added layer, I\u2019ve really enjoyed researching in French because the increase in effort has also increased the payoff.. If all the sources were in English, then it would be more like sifting through piles of jewels to find the best ones.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The added French language component has also been fun as an exercise in bringing together information I\u2019m learning in all my classes. This semester I\u2019m taking French 112, Music 242, Vocal Solo Literature (where we studied French song for part of the term). I\u2019ve been able to use historical and musical knowledge from 242 and Vocal Solo Lit to give context to what we learn, and use my French to keep gaining knowledge.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One thing that I\u2019ve found both exciting and challenging is sifting through all the primary source documents in French. I\u2019m currently taking French 112, so I have some basic language skills, but I\u2019m definitely not to the point where I can skim and get an accurate idea of a source\u2019s contents. For each of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":800,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions\/800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}