This semester has definitely been one of the most stressful I’ve had this far. I’ve never had this much work to do for once class, EVER. From the moment I started getting emails from Marlen, I was stressed and nervous before the class had even started. I’m not going to lie, but after the first class with Marlen I really wanted to drop the class. I was scared because this wasn’t my only hard class for the semester, and I felt as if there was going to be so much work involved, which there definitely was. The most stressful part of the whole process was writing the Literature Review, but after I finished it everything else seemed to just speed right along. After meeting with Marlen and the course assistants, I wasn’t so stressed about the class. My proudest moment in this class was simply just finishing this HUGE research paper. I honestly didn’t expect to finish any of it to tell the truth. I’m usually a huge procrastinator, but in this class I could not procrastinate what so ever, which is actually a good thing. I honestly think that everything I’ve learned in this class will stick with me for the rest of my life.
Blog Entry #16 April 21, 2010
- I honestly think that every assignment that we had to do was very useful to me during my research process. Every blog entry helped me learn so much about every part of the research paper.
- The feedback that was most helpful to me was the first peer drafts that we did in class. The student feedback really helped me work harder on fixing any mistakes that I might have made and not noticed. The peer review feedback was really helpful.
- The most difficult thing for me was doing the introduction. It was really hard to start the paper because I was really unsure what information to put into my introduction, but once I got the introduction done the rest of my paper seemed like a breeze. The easiest part to write was the results and discussion part because it was just straight information that I collected.
- My final essay really shows best in my introduction. Even in the peer reviews the readers mentioned how they really liked it and that it kept their interest.
Blog Entry #15 April 5, 2010
- Doing the peer review projects not only helped the person whose paper I edited, but it also helped me in a lot of ways as well. If I found something wrong on the other person’s paper I would go back and look at my paper to see if I happened to have the same mistakes as they did. It helped me a lot to see what the other person found wrong with my paper because some of the errors were stupid mistakes that I should have been able to catch myself, but I didn’t. It also made me have to read the other person’s paper over again to make sure that I couldn’t find any other mistakes, and it also gave me a chance to see what their research was about.
- I feel as if I am right on track with my paper. I am very excited about it right now, and just can’t wait to finish it. I realized that I sometimes repeated information in my paper that I of course had to change and it made my paper sound a lot better once I fixed it. Before we did the peer review I felt as if I was behind with my paper and getting my results, but once I read someone’s paper other than my own I felt relieved because I now feel like I am right on track and right where I should be with everything.
