Final Post

Wow!! I can't even believe that we only have two more weeks of school!! So far, this semester has been a little bit rough, I haven't taken a writing course in a few years. Coming into the class I thought I still had all of my writing skills from High School. Ha well that wasn't completely truthful. I found I still had a lot to caught up on and remember. Going through each unit I feel that I have improved my writing a lot and my grades with my unit papers have been reflecting that. I find it very helpful to have a good teacher with classmates that are there to learn with you. Looking back at what we have done in this class alone for the whole semester I am actually kinda in aww. We worked everyday in class for something for the paper. I really like how we went through basically all the steps to writing a research paper/ opinion essay. From finding sources to peer reviews, I know that it was all helpful and made it a lot easier when it cam time to sit down and write, you basically had all the information that you needed right in front of you. Like I said I have really enjoyed this class this semester it was obvious that my writing skills still needed a lot of work and I am sure I will have to keep up to date on current information in the writing world.

Refined Bibliography

So this last week we had to take out annotated bibliography from the previous unit and update it. The first one was in no way easy, yet it did help out a lot. I found out so much information about the book before I even had to check them out... which I know saved me tons of time and will help boost my paper in the direction I want it to go. In the revised annotated bibliography we had to go through and even further evaluate out sources. I found that a few of mine were not really what I need for this last paper in unit three. I needed to cut down on my sources to look just at the viewpoint that I am going to present in this last paper. I am really excited to dig down even deeper and complete this last unit paper. So far, things are going well in my research and looking forward to this last month of classes.

Update

So far classes are flying by.. I can't believe how fast this semester has been going we are already on to our unit 3 papers and coming up with a side of the argument we presented in our last unit paper. The second paper went well I have done a lot of research on the topic of sex education and narrowed it to just sex education and the pros and cons, excluding condom use, just to get a more in depth look at the issues that sex education has brought up. I know will have to pick a side of the topic saying either it is a positive impact on the United States or not. So far there has been a lot of grey areas with so many people and this being a close to the heart and home topic many have their say. With the debate on either it is good or bad for students really each person has their reasons to support or not support it. I feel that there is a light that can be shown through sex education and that it can help not only protect kids from STD's, HIV or Aids but also lowers the number of teen pregnancies. I am still considering what side I am going to present in favor of, I know what my thoughts are on this topic, I just am not sure if that is the side of this that I want to present in my last piece.