Research and Writing

            This spring semester I’ve gotten a lot more experienced in writing papers and researching the topics. I’ve written papers before, but it wasn’t until this cluster that I’ve discovered how easy writing papers could become. Finding any information is easy these days, especially with Wikipedia, but I learned that not all sources can help give you a strong argument. In this class, and the others in the cluster, I learned how to navigate through the web, go to LaGuardia’s library website, and even use the texts we paid so much for. With the right amount of research, and too much is never enough, you could begin an outline. It’s good to have an outline of your essay before you actually start writing it. This gives you a bit of motivation that you can actually write the essay and with everything in place it just seems like you could free write your thoughts into the paper instead of staring at the computer screen for hours thinking what else can you add here and there. A good start leads to a great finish so having a good thesis is also important. With an outline and good research you can have a few arguments, sometimes you have to even argue against yourself but you know you could write a great A+ paper. Writing multiple thesis’ and picking one that fits your support the best really helps in getting a good grade and making writing a lot smoother. Finally what I have learned about writing a paper is the citation part and how Ms. McCormick stresses how it has to be perfect, it makes me realize that it’s really important. It lets the reader know that you put a lot of your thought and time into the paper and makes them feel better about reading it, and possibly enjoying it more. Overall writing a paper longer than three pages doesn’t scare me anymore because I have learned how to break it down.