Friday, May 2, 2014

Throughout this year


In the beginning of the year, I had decided to write my essays on autism, but then switched to stem cell research.  I had switched topics because I though stem cell research would be more interesting to find more information on. While doing my research on stem cell research, I had found that with the help of stem cells, researchers have discovered 86 treatments for diseases that affect us today.  I was happy with my topic until I had to write my research paper.  Writing the research paper on stem cell research was hard for me to do so I was not to happy, I regretted choosing stem cell research as my topic because I found information but all the research was the same but stated differently; however, when doing the research paper along with all the other essays, I found a lot of information that I did not already know or information I did not hear before.  I liked the photo essay and the rhetorical analysis better than the research paper.  I liked the other two essays because it was fun and I had never done essay like the rhetorical analysis and the photo essay. Nevertheless, I like the photo essay the most because it was fun and different.  I could be creative with it and make it my own rather than the research paper where it is one set format.  During the course of the year, the students had to have our essays peer reviewed by our other peers, when my other peers reviewed my essays, it had actually helped my quite a bit.  The reviews helped my see if my paper was organized and if the paper flowed the way I wanted it to.  This year of college writing 2 had helped my get a better understanding of how to write papers and different ways to present information creatively instead of a boring paper.