Research Reflection

English 121

Research Reflection

 

            As I look back at my semester of English, I see a lot of goals, surprises and other sorts of information that I have achieved and wanted to express. The biggest school I had walking into English was finishing the semester with an A. I wanted to learn how to write less casually. In my former English classes that seemed to be my only drawback. Writing casually was the only thing standing between me and getting an A in English. I can honestly tell you, that I have somewhat achieved this goal. I still write casually, but now I know how to use certain words and know when to use them. I honestly still need to work on writing less casually. I have been told several times that when people read my writing, they feel as if I am talking to them. It is just one of the many things I still need to work on. I found a lot of surprises when I was researching my topic on vinyl records. I have discovered a want of crazy cool information. I did not know that record sales have increased by 25% the last five years. I did not know that records are indeed making a strong comeback. I always assumed that I was the only teenager that liked vinyl records. The best parts of my paper are my body paragraphs. I have never been able to give so much information. I found some great sources from the databases we were assigned to use. Not getting very much information was also one of my drawbacks from my old English classes in high school. So having these new sources seemed to be a blessing to me. I would have to say that I am most proud of my bibliography. My works cited page. I can predict that my professor will enjoy my body paragraphs the most. I feel that I have gotten a lot better on my computer skills. I feel like I know now what is more credible than other things. I know how to navigate databases a lot more efficiently. The thing I enjoyed the most about the research process was being able to learn about something that I love. I enjoyed researching. The only thing I didn’t like was having to write the paper. But I can tell you that it was pretty simple for me. I was able to write down information because I had great credible sources. I found exactly what I needed. I didn’t spend a lot of time the week on researching because I found the sources that I wanted right off the bat. The only way I can make some adjustments to my paper would be the grammatical errors. I found some helpful research hints and it would be to only use databases. The reason I say this is because the databases give you citations. You don’t have to spend 20 minutes trying to write a citation from one website. These databases are very credible and the citations are also there for you. This will help make your research a lot quicker. It would also help with the works cited page as well.