Research Paper: My Writing Process
For this week I had missed this Thursday's class because of unexpected car problems but I was in class on Tuesday. The week before Mr. Mangini had asked us to answer a couple of questions before this weeks Tuesday class and they were What is MLA?, What is an in-text citation?, What is a Works Cited page?, What is Plagiarism? And Why is it important to cite source materials in an MLA research project? Before I wrote the answers to these questions I thought about them for a little while beforehand so I could try and answer the ones I thought I knew. That didn’t get me too far so I looked them up online to try to find the answers and they very quickly popped up, right below my search I saw all of my answers. When I reached question number four I thought to myself “wait so for all the other questions I’ve been plagiarizing because I wasn’t citing my sources beneath.” but I continued on finishing my questions anyway. During Tuesday's class we talked about different ways people can cite information wrong and I couldn't help but think “there’s so many ways you can plagiarize.” After class had finished i went home and continued to work on my research paper and every time that I looked anything up I made sure that I kept all of the pages that I even read just in case if I reference anything or even thought of a sentence that was remotely related. I continued to answer the questions. I say to myself “What research showed gratitude doesn’t improve well-being?” I immediately went to my three good things journal and looked through the list for something that reminded me of the process not working. There was a couple of things on the list that reminded me of other bad things that happened through that week. I tried to describe the way I was feeling at the time, the best way I could with as little as background information as possible. In conclusion, I don’t think it worked that well. I didn’t feel any improved happiness. I did notice that I show gratitude toward my coworkers by buying everyone munchkins. Although, It could have been that I only wrote two good things per day instead of three. Either way, my conclusion is that it did slightly improve my well-being and I will always remember to think about the better side of things.
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This weeks post is going to be about my Research Paper. There weren’t any articles that we were required to reading or many guidelines other than to write about my research paper and how it was going so far.
I decided to started with the question part of the paper to build the body of the paper. I thought that I would be able to make the whole paper flow better if I knew what I needed to flow into. I copy and pasted the outline into my google document and read over all the questions before I started and thought it would be best to look up the ones that I couldn’t explain first. So far they were what is positive psychology?, what is well-being? and what is gratitude? While researching about these I realized that I am grateful for some of my coworkers since they’ve been getting more experienced. The day after I had bought everyone munchkins and I realized I was showing gratitude towards everyone but doing this small gesture. Without me writing it down and remembering I wouldn’t have realized that I was helping my well-being by doing things like these throughout my week. Just this past week I had bought my family dinner and took my father out to his favorite restaurant to eat. I’ve been trying to continue with my “three intrinsic goals” and improve my well-being. I personally think it’s been working because I’ve been focusing on the good rather than the bad that also happens. |
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