Monday, March 16, 2015

Research paper reflective essay

              I know right from the get-go that the biggest thing I have taken away from this paper is a new motivation to learn my family story. I come from a family that didn’t sit down and tell stories all of the time. We spent most of our time in the here and now. I learned about several ancestors I have never heard of before and I loved learning more about them. On that side this paper was really positive for me, but though I enjoyed researching my family stories, I had a considerably hard time writing this paper. I don’t know if it was because of what was going on in my life, if I am just bad at writing research papers, or if I just didn’t find a subject that interested me enough, but I had a bear of a time getting the length I needed. I also felt like I didn’t quite understand the citations, and as always grammar kicks my behind.

              I feel like this paper allowed me to apply a lot of things I have been learning in other classes this semester. I used principles I learned in other classes all throughout this paper and it would have been very different if I had a different schedule. I can see the things I am learning being applied elsewhere and that validates the effort I’ve put in.

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