Reflection

1. Summarize your writing process on this paper, pointing out what you found most difficult, most useful, and least useful.  Is there anything you would do differently next time?  Is there anything you think I should do differently next year in preparing students for this assignment?

For this paper, I did my research for quite a while, and I had a detailed annotated bibliography.  The bibliography helped me a lot because not all of my sources were useful, and my topic was reshaped throughout the writing process.  When it changed, I went back to my bibliography to asses which sources I would use.  Even more useful was the detailed outline.  It took me a while to do, but it was the most useful tool I have ever used while writing a paper.  Basically, all I had to do when I wrote my paper was copy and paste and add transitions.  Definitely tell next year's students to do a thorough job of this and don't just make up something so you get the points the day its due.  It really does pay off!  Also, next time I would spend less time doing research and more time working on notecards.  Next year, you should give everyone more of a timeline when to start notecards because I think I started them too late in the process.

2. What feedback did you receive (from peers, me, or anyone else), and how did you respond to it?

Before revising my draft, I read through all of the comments from my peer and made marks on my paper where I needed to change things.  Then I went to turnitin and thoroughly marked my paper with Dr. D's comments and ways to fix my mistakes.  I am really proud of myself for doing this, because normally I think my paper is good enough and I'm too lazy to revise it much and use people's advice.

3. Using the traits of good writing and features of strong research papers, what are the strongest and weakest aspects of your paper?

I think the strongest points of my paper are ideas and voice.  I think that my ideas were well developed and supported, and my quotes were well analyzed.  Also, I believe I kept an appropriate voice throughout my paper, being careful to not add to much of my own opinion.  The weakest aspect was probably sentence fluency.  My group pointed out that I had a couple of awkward sentences, and I tried to fix them.

Work on revising draft: 1 hour
Final Draft: 20 minutes
Read Nervous Conditions: 1 hour, 30 minutes
Total: 2 hours, 50 minutes

Reading/Work

1/29/13- Finish Notecards and  do Outline: 1 hour, 40 minutes
2/3/13- Revise Outline- 30 minutes
2/3/13- Frommer's Spain 19th Edition by Patricia Harris and David Lyon: 20 minutes