Thursday, February 12, 2015
reflection
From this assignment I gained the knowledge that there is a fine line between the way you write a report and the way you write a research paper. I started out with a report, but realized that im doing research. So instead of saying what you did, you have to say what you found. use the statement what I found, not what I did. Another thing that I learned from this paper is when you interview someone you don't want to try to incorporate all of the questions you used in your interview, but instead simply try to incorporate the main points. Trying to put your entire interview in simply takes to many words and is not necessary in any way.What I found did in fact did support what I assumed about my field. Biology includes both academic and non academic forms of writing, through emails and essays and lab reports. I assumed that just because im dealing with writing in college and biology doesn't mean that all the writing is going to be academic. the challenges of this assignment would be the organization of the paper itself. That is the main problem I had and im currently still trying to over come it. For some reason it is confusing me more now then it was before. As a writer though when I look at this past assignment I learned that my go to is to simply report what I did, and elaborate and explain that. But also I learned that I start to kind of go off track and make things a little confusing. What helped me improve my weaknesses were the group conferences, which I found helpful. The conferences put me back on track and put me in the right direction. It showed me that my paper was organized wrong and gave me some ideas on how to do so. To me it really doesn't matter if a peer is there or not, but to some Im sure it makes a difference. Like I heard in class, a few peers said that they thought that they did not get enough time to discuss their papers with a peer. It was not a problem for me this time but I could see where it could become a problem in the future. But in general having a peer there could be a good thing, because it gives you a second pair of eyes to catch something that maybe the teacher missed or just another opinion in general is never a bad thing
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