Reflections

Experience Synthesis:
(My reflection on this writing project from my blog)

Originally I was not that excited to write this paper, but after finally deciding on  a topic the paper came pretty easily to me. The design plan I originally created was a good starting point and helped me write my paper with a clear idea on how I wanted to structure my paper. The first draft peer review was helpful in helping me find out what needed to be improved and what I did not want in my paper. Same thing goes for the second draft review. Writing my final paper was really just tweaking some things that needed to be changed and adding or moving things around to help the paper flow. I thought that this whole writing process was going to be terrible but it turned out to be pretty easy. By doing this my original design plan was completely different from what my final paper was. My design plan had to be redone to conform to what my paper was. Some of the changes that I did were throw out some ideas I intended on including but later realized that this idea was not going to flow as nicely as others.
I think I accomplished my goal in writing this paper which was to inform people that the notion that money will not make us happy. I think my paper thoroughly explained this idea is false through some psychological evidence and my experience with a man who had next to nothing. Also I think through my synthesis on how the man fit into the hierarchy of needs was also a very useful tool in accomplishing my goal because it brought the two ideas together.


Explanatory synthesis:
(My reflection on this writing project from my blog)

My final paper was actually very similar to my outline. Most of my body paragraphs were moved around but for the most part the content that intended on including was in my final paper. One of the paragraphs I decided to change the content of it from explaining why E85 is the future fuel that we will use to why it should be good news for car enthusiast because it confirms the survival of the internal combustion engine. The other thing that was different was that I planned on having a fourth paragraph but decided to split that paragraph among the three main body paragraphs. In that fourth paragraph I intended to summarize why the power plants that I explained in my first three paragraphs would be the future of cars. I later decided that the paper would flow much better if I just explained at the end of each body paragraph why that engine would be the future of cars. Overall I was surprised on how close my outline and my final paper was because usually they are not that similar when I finish writing papers.


Research argument:

This writing project was probably the most fun to write out of all of them. In this project, I was able to research a topic that I found to be really interesting. This project also required me to do research in a new way and i found that this later helped me with some other papers in different classes. I also learned a lot of new information about the topic that I was researching which was really fun for me.
This paper change a lot over the course of the writing process. My original idea was drastically different from the final outcome.

Research Presentation:

This project was really easy and I think was a fun way for us to all explain our research and what we learned. It is a bit tough to cram all the information into 5 minutes. I had to throw out some of the information that I had in my paper because I was constantly going over time. I really enjoyed doing both this project and the research argument mainly because it was on a topic that i enjoyed researching so it made the writing easier.