Research Project Progress Report: Week 5

        This week I did my rough draft of my research paper. The most valuable thing I learned was definitely not to leave things last minute so I don't get stuck doing work while I'm sick next time. The only challenges I faced was making my rough draft clean and coherent. Every time I start writing something its mostly brain vomit and I always have to go back and organize everything so it doesn't all look like random information everywhere. So the fact that this was such a long writing process everything came out kind of messy and random despite me trying to stick to my outline - I couldn't help just writing the next thing that came to my mind no matter how irrelevant it was. My goals for this coming week is to get a lot of work done on polishing my rough draft because it isn't anything close that I would actually consider passing in for a final. I'm going to want to go back and find the right spots to add in more things that I felt I left out the first time writing it, so its not just going to be plain editing and rearranging things. I feel like I got the hardest part out of the way which was get all this information down but I still feel like I have a good ways to go before a final.

Research Project Progress Report: Week 3

        This week I found a few more sources and finished my outline. I had a hard time starting my outline but once the ideas started flowing I was able to get it all done all at once. I learned that it would have been a lot harder if I had to make up the whole essay as I went along because coming up with the structure was already hard enough that trying to structure and write your thoughts and findings all at once would have been very messy. The one challenge I faced this week was meeting the deadline for the annotated bibliography...I still have to go back and finish that -cough-. My goals for next week is to get a start on that rough draft (which won't be anything I'll be able to finish in one day) and also to just finish the annotated bibliography so I can get that out of the way instead of just putting it off.