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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Sabatino
11/20/2018 07:04:41 am
This post provides insights into your learning (the genre of research writing...the conventions of formal citation) and your qualitative inquiry into gratitude. We can talk about how writing "two things" a day instead of three might impact your findings.
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Colin
11/20/2018 09:15:55 am
Really well written blog post, I also was very surprised about the plagiarism parts of my writing .
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Qaadir.M
12/3/2018 09:17:29 am
I like how you included your progressive thought as you did your research. You were definitely on a track of asking yourself better questions than I was, and still am.
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