Blog #7

Reflection:

I am writing this blog a little late, but I can still definitley reflect on the entire research writing experience.  I have to admitt the first seven pages (intro, lit review and methods sections) were not nearly as hard to pull out as I thought they were going to be.  Not to say I didn’t have any trouble writing them, but they came much faster and a little easier than I had previously expected.  One thing I have learned is that by looking at other students writing I can see what I am missing, and I can see what I have done a better job on than others.  Also I learned a lot about revisions by simply looking at the rubric Marlen gave us to grade others, and by constructing my own rubric during class for the methods section.

Next I am going to have to work on conducting my actual research, which I learned more on by talking to Marlen and the one helping teacher.  I found it very helpful to talk to other students and hear about how they are going about collecting data.  Also knowing that our participants must be held secret was a helpful note because at first I was not sure if I was going to be able to use interviews with specific people for information to help with my research.  All in all I learned a lot about how to improve and work around problems with my research and final paper by simply showing up to class!

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