writing skills

I believe that my writing skills have improved. I have a much better understanding of citations, then I did when this class began. Before this class I had never done personal research. I never got out there and asked people questions for a paper. I feel that, overall, I am leaving this class with a better understanding of how to write a college paper. I believe this will help me in many of my future classes.

4th essay

Something that I have struggled with this essay, has been the citations. I am still new to this process, so I have a hard time knowing how to do the in-text citation. I think that is what it is called. I hope that after this essay I have a better understanding and am able to move on to my next english class without this difficulty. Luckily the research part was easy.

turnitin.com

At first I did not like the idea of using a website to turn in my homework. Although part of my concern was my inability to access the site from my home computer. Now that my computer is working better and I am able to easily gain access to the site and I like it. It was helpful for me, since I was sick the week before the draft of a paper was due and using this site made it easy for me to still turn in my assignment. And allow me to take advantage of the e-conference this week and be able to get a little extra sleep on Monday morning.

My family

In my family, writing and literacy are not very important. My grandma has only about an eighth grade education level. We are still able to write to each other. Both of my parents have just a high school education. They are all very proud of me for continuing my education. Not many members of my family have gone to college. It does make it hard though, I don't have many family members that I can turn to for help.

Summary and response

I really did not expect to do that well on the summary and response essay. I was very glad to see that I had received a decent grade on the paper. I had a hard time with writing this paper, but it looks like my hard work did pay off. Hopefully I will be able to repeat the performance with this new paper that we have been assigned. I am strruggling to find the material that I need. I am just trying to be patient and I will find what I need.

IMRD

This was my first time writing a paper like this. The research part took a little longer then I had expected it to, but I think my overall paper came together pretty good. I made sure to pick a topic that I would really be interested in, I think that helped to push me a little more on this paper. I really did want to know what people thought about my topic.I also think this paper was a little easier to write because of the structure of it. It was nice to have a specific layout for writing a paper, and an example in the book.

another reflection

Before I had mentioned that starting a paper was hard for me. When given the freedom to write about anything that I want to I feel that it is so much easier. Some people feel that given a more structured paper is easier to write, I do not agree. I have really struggled with this IMRD paper, it is very specific on what needs to be done. I do feel more confident though, now that my research is done and I have begun writing the actual paper.