D#6HW#3

This is my writing project reflection for WP#1. I don't want it to sound negative, but I was disappointed in my peer reviews. They commented mainly on spelling and grammar, not on the bigger picture stuff, which is what I need more help with. I can't use contractions in a paper? I would have liked more helpful comments to help me with my topic.

THe other thing that has been hard for me is that I picked a cool topic, but there's not a lot of research on it. I have a really hard time picking a topic (I'm usually really late) so I was proud of myself for thinking of something cool, that i was actually interested in, and doing it right away. But now as i get into it, I'm not finding much that helps me. On the one hand, that's really cool, too, because I feel like i'm going into new territory, one that hasn't been written about much in the past. however, i also don't feel totally ready, or that I know enough about how to write on a totally new topic. Usually I find things and put them together, but this is taking a lot of work to find stuff, and it will be even harder, I think, to put it in a paper. So one of the questions is, what would i do differently? I might find an easier topic! But then again, I probably wouldn't be so interested in it, either.

The turnitin report was cool. I didn't know that existed. But it made me feel really original.

I know that it might have been easier to write a paper about something that's "controversial", but I just wasn't interested in doing a paper that's been done before. Someone said my paper has to be controversial. Really, we need another paper about abortion? I'd rather just write all the sides about a topic, think about it from all the angles I can, and not have to say who or what is right or wrong.

One skill this project really helped with was figuring out who my audience is. I didn't ever think about writing for someone or a group in particular. It was also interesting to think about how my experience with this topic might change how i write about it. Comparing my interest in the topic to the writer from the Christian Science Monitor who just sounds annoyed by the interest in toys around CHristmas.

It's been hard for me to work on this paper so fast. I mean, usually we have a lot of time to think about a topic. Instead, with this short timeline, we have to really get moving. So i didn't have enough time to really refine my topic. I would have liked to have had enough time to pick out exactly what three or four examples (of consumer goods) that I was going to write about in my paper. THat would have made this WP#1 stronger. But I'm having such a hard time finding research that I hvaen't narrowed it down yet. The next time i have to write a paper, I would decide on my supporting evidence more before this part is due. This does concern me, not finding enough research. I should have looked harder before choosing this topic.