The Importance Of Quality Writing

This has been an interesting semester of ups and downs. I started out pretty confident in my writing though very nervous about sharing it. I never realized how much work a quality research paper is. I have not had to write an essay for anything in over fifteen years. Every assignment was like new missions of relearning what I was once taught and adding what I just learning. Although it wasn 't easy I believe that I wrote some quality papers and was a pretty good student. I believe that research was my biggest struggle this semester. I didn 't really understand the process, or know how to gain a true understanding of the topic I was writing about. Previously I would decide on a topic, write an outline of what I thought it should look like and then jump into writing the paper. When I needed a fact to prove my point I would try to find research that met my …show more content…
I usually ended up feeling frustrated with the process of searching and settling for information that didn 't really fulfill my point. I have now realized that if I choose a topic I 'm interested in and then do the research, by the time I 've learned all I need to know to understand my topic the essay pretty much writes itself. If a research paper is done in this order it becomes a great paper with true incite instead of a paper filled with words that mean nothing. Its a struggle to write a 5-6 page essay when your are B.S.ing your way through it. The process of research is very hard and time consuming because its more than just finding facts that fits into your belief/idea. It was intimidating to know that I had to learn a new topic and write a paper. But if those fears get set aside the time spent researching makes up for the time it takes to writing the paper. For example my final essay on protest was a