In writing this paper, I
planned to get a basis of knowledge for my next assignment. I needed to get
good quotes from the articles and books so that my next assignment would be
easy. I hoped that this paper would lead me in the direction I wanted to go
with my inquiry project. Through this process, I did find that I wanted to
focus on the different learning styles and how schools differ in the ways they
achieve each learning style. My focus was originally on learning styles and
genders and age but as I researched, it moved to a broader topic about learning
styles and school systems.
I got lucky and found two good
online articles that I ended up using for my paper so I started out with these.
After writing these, I went to the library and found three more books about my
topic. From there, it was fairly easy to finish the paper because I already had
practiced the format from the articles. In class, I used time at the end to
write some of my paper. Before writing, I used the tools Megan gave me to look
up credible sources in the library. When I knew what book I was looking for and
how to find it, the process was fairly easy.
My writing became more
professional from the first draft to the second. After the advice my group gave
me about changing some of my vocabulary, my paper sounded more proper and
collegiate. My peers were very helpful in the work shopping process because
they gave me new ideas on how to make my paper better, like changing vocabulary
and moving sentences. They also gave me praise on good parts of my paper like
the quotes and the overall idea.
The authors of the books and
articles contributed to my papers' success because the authors gave me the
information needed to form a fact-based paper. At first, the assignment seemed
very difficult but other students in the class who would ask questions helped
me understand the assignment better.
I have learned that I make lots
of silly mistakes in my writing that I don't catch until I workshop and revise.
My workshop group is very helpful in pointing out sentences that need
improvement. I have also learned that it's easier for my to write when I have
an outline of what I'm supposed to be writing about. The format Megan gave us
helped me tremendously.
The hardest part of writing this paper was not the
actual writing process but finding sources that related to my topic and
actually finding them in the library. I had never looked up and found a book in
the library before this assignment but from the process, I have realized it's
easy. The easiest part of this essay was finding quotes and adding them in the
paper. For me, this was also the most interesting because I got to see how the
author’s opinions of my topic related to my own opinions through their quotes.
I took risks in the paragraphs where I had to apply the information and say how
I was going to add this to my next paper. I questioned my thoughts in this
section, which is usually uncomfortable for me.
I’m most proud of the quotes
I picked out because I feel like they are very important and could potentially
be the most important part of the next assignment. The author’s words are
exactly what I’m looking at when breaking down my topic.
I still need to improve my
analysis paragraphs because they still sound like summary. I took out sentences
from the analysis section and added them to the summary section hoping this
would make more since and be less repetitive.
I did a lot of brainstorming
before writing this paper because it took a long time for me to finally find a
topic I was really interested in. Once I found that topic, I found articles
online that related to my topic and I annotated the articles. After that, I
began to write my annotated bibliography. I started with the first two articles
and then ended with the last three books that I found in the library. I brought
my paper to the workshop and my peers and I worked through how to improve it. I
revised my paper and then submitted it for the final.
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