Man it has been quite a long week….and it is only Wednesday. Anyways, the Research Exploration Project….
Going into the project, I was excited and ready to write about my summer in Montana, and all of the amazing things about it, but then I realized it is only about one specific aspect and that is it. I had to think about what would be fun in finding information for it and how much I could actually write about it. We also had to put it into conversation and for me that was a bit difficult because I kept wanting to talk about my experience instead of the information I learned from researching it.
What worked for me best was being able to summarize the sources and talk about in conversation. What didn’t work was probably everything else.. but I have no negative thoughts about the project, it was just the topic I chose to do. After looking over the possible things to research, I ended up with the Milky Way. Now I thought this was such a good idea and I was thinking it would be super interesting to learn about but it was actually very confusing and difficult to find the sources I wanted.
So far, my rough draft is looking pretty good but I feel like I could have done it wrong in some way, or that I added too much about my story when really it is just supposed to be research. I found it hard to grab information from the sources and summarize it without having to add more and more so the reader could understand. I ended up using a good amount of my research, but I also limited it because there was too much to write down after reading LITERALLY everything about the Milky Way.
Overall it was an alright experience. If we are being honest, I enjoyed our last project more or some from writing 1 HAHA but that’s just because I like to write freely about my personal stories.
Skye Shaffer 