Writing. When I hear the word writing I automatically begin to panic. My mind begins to go blank in terms of what I would write about or what I need to do. Having taken Writing 10 this semester I feel more at ease and confident in my writing abilities. I have grown in a multitude of ways as a writer that include how to think about an idea and how to translate it to a question, as before I merely wrote about a topic rather than actually driving into the topic. But as I grew as a writer I faced a couple challenges along the way. One challenge I faced along the way in Writing 10 was coming up with a research question and whether my question was too broad or too narrow to begin with. I then began to do research by looking at sources from a broad
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One of the things I have learned about myself as a writer is to research a given topic and really understand the topic in not just one view but in multiple views. I have learned that in order to acquire good information I have to be open to thinking critically about the question I am trying to answer. When looking at potential sources one has to look at whether the source is from a reliable resource or not to ensure they are getting valid information. As of before I would only use Google to find my sources and would usually use the ones that appeared on the top. Being able to examine a source based on its quality, research is less intimidating and I feel that I have been given the tools to do research the correct way. That being said, because we were able to go through the steps of research I was able to fully understand how each step is important and should not be ignored. Furthermore, Quality is more important than quantity. I have learned to judge a source and determine if it is right to use by looking at its credibility, point of view (whether the author appears to be biased), date of article published and various other things. Having been able to go through the research process in class I can now look into the future and say confidently that I have the ability to search for reliable sources. Though I may feel this way as a researcher as a writer itself I have so much to learn. One of the things I hope to acquire as I expose myself to writing is the ability to make my sentences flow, as I am aware that I may seem to jump around a lot and can not seem to fix it. But as everything else writing will only get better with
One of the things I have learned about myself as a writer is to research a given topic and really understand the topic in not just one view but in multiple views. I have learned that in order to acquire good information I have to be open to thinking critically about the question I am trying to answer. When looking at potential sources one has to look at whether the source is from a reliable resource or not to ensure they are getting valid information. As of before I would only use Google to find my sources and would usually use the ones that appeared on the top. Being able to examine a source based on its quality, research is less intimidating and I feel that I have been given the tools to do research the correct way. That being said, because we were able to go through the steps of research I was able to fully understand how each step is important and should not be ignored. Furthermore, Quality is more important than quantity. I have learned to judge a source and determine if it is right to use by looking at its credibility, point of view (whether the author appears to be biased), date of article published and various other things. Having been able to go through the research process in class I can now look into the future and say confidently that I have the ability to search for reliable sources. Though I may feel this way as a researcher as a writer itself I have so much to learn. One of the things I hope to acquire as I expose myself to writing is the ability to make my sentences flow, as I am aware that I may seem to jump around a lot and can not seem to fix it. But as everything else writing will only get better with