The in-class essay, while it was useful if
we were writing shorter research papers, I think that this research paper and
in-class essay were too different in magnitude for it to be an accurate
representation of how writing the research paper would be. It was like writing sections of the paper,
not the entire thing. I think having
done an earlier draft would have been helpful.
Personally, I changed my topic from the first annotated bibliography to
the next assignment, so I think that if we had started the research earlier,
then it would have been easier to have a firm hold on the topic that we wanted
to write about. I also think that
reading the resources like Strunk & White would have been more useful to
read at the beginning of the project. It
would have been helpful to have their tips kept in mind while initially writing
the paper rather than looking if you did everything that they said after the
majority of the paper was done.
I
think that writing a couple shorter papers would have been useful also. It would have been better with preparing how
to make an effective argument. Fight
Club was useful in preparing how to argue, but if we had written a paper, it
would have better prepared us on how to write out an argument in a format that
is different than speaking.
I agree that writing resources should be introduced very early on because having to go back through the entire paper to fix mistakes can cause you to miss some things. And, the techniques will be learned if we practice using them as we write.
ReplyDeleteI agree that the in-class essay may not have been very useful for our research paper as they are of different magnitudes. On the other hand, it was beneficial for me generally because it taught me how to argue for absurd ideas and think out side the box. However, I do agree that earlier drafts would be more beneficial than additional in-class essays.
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