Reflecting and Researching

  How time flies! I can't believe that a semester is almost over, and I have kept blogging for several months. By reading over all of the blogs that I posted, I found that I really learned a lot and my writing skill has improvded because of writing blogs twice a week.
  Since it's a blog about my field, I found myself now understanding my major better. The top three things that I have learned about my field  are that I know what hospitality management is, I used to think that only someone who wants to be a hotel manager would study hospitality maagement, but after researching, I know what this major really is. Also, I have got some experience of working in a hotel, and I wrote down my feelings in the blog. In addition, I learned many professional vocabularies about my field. I think I would use them one day when I really work in a hotel.
 As I researching for information about my field, my researching ability is improving too. I used to think that using the internet is the only way that I could research, but I found I'm wrong now. In the blog, I have used many ways of researching, such as books, news, internet, and interview of others. This is the most important thing I have learned as a researcher. What's more, I know how to make citations in a sentence, and at the end of the articles. I wasn't used to making citations even I used other people's views, but now I know I was wrong and quotation is very important for me and also others. It shows the respect to the author of the sentence, and it's very necessary to tell readers were I got these opinions. I have also learned how to sum up others' opinions, and add my own thoughts into the article. I learned that since I am doing this a lot when I was writing a blog, it's very useful to combine my own opinion to others and create some new ideas.
  The question I still have about my field is that I still can't get the whole process of recruiting and employing new staff for a hotel, and I wonder if everyone who major in hospitality would start their job at basic level.