I-Search Reflection Essay
As an individual, I was happy with my contributions. In past group projects, I’ve been known to do too much of the project. I wouldn’t trust in my groupmates to do the work so I’d end up just doing most of it by myself. On this project, I really worked to trust my groupmates to do the work and I think I was successful. I was able to trust my groupmates and have faith in them. So in the end, we all contributed even amounts. One big contribution I had to our project was when we were about to finish our project we realized that we didn’t have any research on Xi Jinping. I stepped up and did the research. I also think I did a good job in planning and organization by making sure everyone knew the work they had to get done. …show more content…
I started off by just reading through the Wikipedia page of China’s economy which helped give me a general overview of our theme. This was pretty easy. But it got difficult when I had to research how our theme, China’s economy, changed under each leader. It wasn’t the actual notes and OPCVL we had to do for each source that was hard; it was finding a source. I had to try many different keywords to find a “good” source. It took a lot of patience to find a good source and at times it took an hour to find one source. Multiple times I got discouraged and felt like I’d never find a source that worked. In the end, however, I think my bibliography was fairly sophisticated as it consisted of many different types of
As an individual, I was happy with my contributions. In past group projects, I’ve been known to do too much of the project. I wouldn’t trust in my groupmates to do the work so I’d end up just doing most of it by myself. On this project, I really worked to trust my groupmates to do the work and I think I was successful. I was able to trust my groupmates and have faith in them. So in the end, we all contributed even amounts. One big contribution I had to our project was when we were about to finish our project we realized that we didn’t have any research on Xi Jinping. I stepped up and did the research. I also think I did a good job in planning and organization by making sure everyone knew the work they had to get done. …show more content…
I started off by just reading through the Wikipedia page of China’s economy which helped give me a general overview of our theme. This was pretty easy. But it got difficult when I had to research how our theme, China’s economy, changed under each leader. It wasn’t the actual notes and OPCVL we had to do for each source that was hard; it was finding a source. I had to try many different keywords to find a “good” source. It took a lot of patience to find a good source and at times it took an hour to find one source. Multiple times I got discouraged and felt like I’d never find a source that worked. In the end, however, I think my bibliography was fairly sophisticated as it consisted of many different types of