My Search Essay

The Story of My Search As I began planning for the name research paper my English teacher gave me, I was not exactly sure what I would get out of it. The topic of the essay didn’t exactly speak to me because I already knew how I got my name and the meanings of it, so I did not know if I would learn something new. But as I began to research the meanings of my names, I realized that there is a lot more to a person’s name. In the first week of our research, we went to the library, and I used different books until I found the one that had the meanings of all three of my names. Over the course of the next week, I used the Internet and many different websites to find information that I did not know about my names. All that I knew about my name before researching was that my first name meant innocent, my middle name meant grace, and my last name meant thorn bush. I also knew that my grandmother had a dream about having a granddaughter named Katie, so my parents named me Katelyn. However, I wanted to learn a few things about my names through the research. For …show more content…
I learned that doing research on multiple things requires organization and a need to prioritize tasks. The study on my names also helped me gain new modes of writing and helped me understand how to write them, making my writing have more variety. I learned means of organization throughout writing and how to interview someone for a specific topic. The way I thought about planning for essays improved because I now understand how to organize my research results, and I also understand how to take the results and put them into my essay correctly. It became known to me the thought that is put into someone’s name when their parents are choosing it. Writing this essay caused me to appreciate my name and what it means for me as a person, and how important names are to a person because it reflects on who they are and who they will