Research for my Micro-Project (26/2/2013)

Today we were told that our next project would be a Micro-Project in which we would have to use the library as our only source of information in order to write up on anything that we wanted to regardless of its theme. Therefore we needed to find a book which contained a chapter, essay or article that we found interesting and write about it. I will also need to consider what the ideas, themes and my reasons are for choosing the particular book.
 
The task itself was set so as to make sure we were not only using the library, but also knew how to use it in terms of finding out the information we were looking for.

Book Research:

This week was set for research whilst next week will be the write up session before a short presentation the week after that.

Unsure of what to write, I first looked over a couple of books based on Sci-fi movies before looking over the history of Manga. They both had interesting ideas in them, but none of them grabbed me completely. Therefore remembering that I am doing a lot of work on Cthulhu I decided to look for books based on H.P Lovecraft and even hoped to find poems by Edger Allen Poe as I am interested in reading his work. Unfortunately, there are none of these books in the library which is surprising and disappointing.

I turned my attention to books based on ancient Mythology. Interested I looked over a book entitled 'The Encyclopedia of Mythology' by Arthur Cotterell and decided to go with this choice. After reading over the sections 'Heroes' and 'Heroic Quests' I decided on the latter as not only do I love adventure, but I can also relate the myths themselves to video games, movies and the sessions of 'Dungeon and Dragons' that I go to as the myths have obvious influences over these examples.

Complementary Studies:

After Easter we are expected to take part in Complementary Studies in which we will have to choose any of the tasks available. I am unsure of which one to choose as even though I want to go into writing I may want to give something else a try so as to get other experiences.