Hello Bloggers! Happy Friday once again! I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! And hope you all ate a ton of food! I know I did. Anyway, this weeks blog is about our research paper and how its coming along. All I can say is… is school over yet!?
This semester has taken me for a ride, between dealing with the politics of this school and keeping up with my homework, I have become quite exhausted. Its hard to stay motivated when I’m told some of the 60units I’ve taken wont suffice for graduation. I must say this wonderful college of ours has given me nothing but the run around. Yet with this said I refuse to leave this place until I have that ever special AA in my hand. So sorry AVC your going to have to put up with my harassment.
This class especially has been a challenge while putting up with the above. Trying to read and write my little heart out has been a difficult pursuit. This research paper especially has been really intense. At first I was sort of lost in the whole idea, how the heck am I going to write a research paper on fiction. Not only that but an idea that arose in the novels chosen. I was terrified to be quite honest, I can get down on a research paper but that’s when I have a factual baseline. More so how am I going to be able to write six friggin pages about it.
Well I am a procrastinator, horribly, its kind of disgusting actually. But sometimes that’s when my best work happens. Though with something like this I have done a bit better and gotten started a little earlier than I usually do. For me I had to do an outline, I would have been lost without this. I put together basically what I wanted to write and cited the specific quotes I wanted to use. After I spent some time with books and paper surrounding me, I put it all down and let my brain rest.
So then the next day I sat my outline next to my computer and just started writing. I am pretty good at writing down my ideas once they get flowing. But I do have a problem with sentence fragments because I seem to think faster than I write. So I have found several riddled about my essay so far. I just write until the page count goes up. Ha-ha. So for now I still need to go through and edit all the fragments and fun grammar stuff. Plus finish writing about two pages, but that’s not so bad, though I am stressing out about it! I suppose on the positive side it is going somewhere so that definitely means something. Its been a bit difficult too link the ideas from one author to another, then also adding in the scholarly sources. Its also been hard as far as time management but I do think that in the end I will do okay. It always works out. Good luck to all of you! We’re sooooo close to the end, lets rock this!
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I agree with you about this class. I have never written so much in my life. It sounds like you are having better luck with your paper than me, congrats! And yes, AVC will give you a run for your money and with classes being cut I wish you all the luck! I am so so glad that I will finally be transferring with my AA in January. It’s a definite sense of accomplishment. You will get there and it doesn’t seem like you have far to go. I, too, have problems with sentence fragments. I don’t type too fast so my brain is way faster than my fingers. Sometimes I have to read and reread sentences because my mind reads words that aren’t there. I usually have my mom edit for that reason alone. I don’t know if I would say I have become a better writer with this class but definitely a better thinker. And in a way I guess that does make you a better writer, okay so maybe I have improved a tiny bit. This class was very challenging, and no offense to Jennifer, but I’m glad school is almost over. This class has caused me to break down a couple times. Good Luck with finals!
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