Reflective Essay: Biofabricated Meat In The Classroom

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When i first entered this course i expected it to be as hard as a college class. What i did find out was that it was much more streamlined and functioned as a class on how to manage your time and deal with big projects. I was really efficient in writing and being creative in my papers but not so much when it came to research papers. We mostly wrote research papers in this class so instead of using my strength in creativity i mostly had to do research and be genuinely interested in the topic i chose. I was used to taking online english classes where i had a lot of time to complete assignments so i felt very independent. College writing was similar on how i felt that i had enough time to complete assignments but the deadlines felt more real. …show more content…
The main difference between the two is that biofabricated meat is grown artificially, in a lab, while natural meat is grown naturally, animals. It 's important to be able to compare your topic and contrast it so you have a full scope of your topic and know that there are those differences and similarities. Comparing and contrasting two concepts goes a long way in not only writing papers but in life in general. Most of the time people assume a certain thing is similar to another without actually analyzing why it 's not similar, the contrast. I brought an open mind when i compared and contrasted both natural meat and bio meat to give a more leveled approach and to see both concepts eye to eye. One of the things i mentioned in the paper was that biofabricated meat today is still in its prototype stage and hasn 't fully developed yet but the concept is there and the technology is coming. During the editing process for the final i didn 't change much because i thought i did a when i edited the paper the first …show more content…
Never before have i written a paper of this length about a researched topic. By combining all the previous papers i wrote about this topic i was able to jot down and plan an idea of how to organize a big paper. By taking specific things i wrote from the other papers it made it easier to have the good ideas in the paper without having to re-research it. Although i did research more when i wrote the major paper, taking my previous ideas helped majorly in cutting down thinking time. Writing a paper this big definitely makes me feel more prepared when i have to write papers in college because i built a foundation and now have the experience of writing long papers. Using in-text citation is probably the most important thing to remember because without in-text citations the whole paper will sound like claims with no evidence. Using both opinion but at the same time having evidence behind it makes the paper seem more personal and enjoying without the feeling that it 's been written by a robot is what i think i did originally. I noticed some grammar issues that i quickly fixed to finalize the major paper for the portfolio

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