2. Reflection on Writing

For my research paper, what do I want to get out of it? I would like to be able to talk extensively about my topic in everyday language and be able to anticipate and then answer potential questions fielded to me by my audience. This writing will teach me how to conduct in-depth research on a particular topic and be able to find reputable sources to help back up my evidence. I think my topic will have something to do with how certain people interpret things and the way those interpretations help to shape how they react and I've been interested in this type of thing for awhile because there have been all these psychological studies about how the power of positive thinking can cure you of ailments and make you a more successful person overall.

For this last analysis paper, I didn't find peer reviews that were just looking at one area of my essay very helpful because my biggest problem is not connecting ideas and ineffective transitions. I think I would like to have one person peer review my entire paper and then give me feedback on it so for my research paper I will probably have the writing center review it and then get feedback. I did find some of the advice from my peers helpful because they all said I needed a clear topic sentence for each paragraph and after I reread it I realized they were right. One thing I learned about myself through this process was that I require a lot of time to write. Once I start writing, words start to flow pretty easily, but it takes many revisions to get it to where I want it so for the future I'd say I need to allot more time for the writing process of writing, reading, revising, rerevising, exc.  I also need to space this allotted time out better so I'm not so sick of rereading my arguments. That'd be my number one goal while writing my research paper. Another important aspect of the research paper is picking something I'm interested in. If I'm going to be writing 10 pages about something, I don't want to get bored of it easily or it'll be torture to write.