Monday, March 25, 2013

Lengthy Revisions

Here I am, at two in the morning, eating a mango, and unable to sleep. I am debating which of my papers I will revise for my portfolio. For the past hour, I have been examining each one of my papers as well as the comments attached to every one of them. Honestly, I was considering to revise them all, but of course, I'm not entitled to do that. I barely have enough time to sleep, let alone time to revise three papers! Also, it is unquestionable that Dr. deGravelles would be unwilling to grade two extra papers along with the fifty (or so?) papers she must already grade. 

And so, I narrowed it down to my research paper. I must say, this paper, by far, has been the most pleasurable to write. However, during the time when I was writing it, feelings of anxiety and stress overwhelmed me. I felt as if the annotated bibliography was absolutely dragged out, but as we got to the actual paper itself, the day the paper was assigned and the due date was incredibly too close to each other! So many assignments and other hodgepodges had been due that week. Thus, my completed product did not come out the way I expected it to. 


I will focus on organization and a further development of ideas for my revision. Although my paper is pretty lengthy, the specific word to describe the organization of my paper would be... jambalaya. It's all intermixed and jumbled all over the place. I'd correct the places where paragraph breaks are needed. And as far as my development, there are certainly many places where I need to provide additional information. I know for certain that I do not have enough information on the discrimination that exists in my paper. And for that, I'd have to further analyze and research my information - whether it comes from the internet or from my interview. I do want to include more of the adaptations which stemmed from the migration. I included some in my presentation, which I had not in my paper. Also, if I have enough time, I might interview another person as well. I had initially been looking forward to interviewing Mr. Hoang, as he had accepted my request in interviewing him prior to writing my paper. However, I did not have the time allotted to squeeze in an interview. 

1 comment:

  1. Christine, these sound like promising changes, but be careful not to go overboard - make sure to keep your changes in scope with the time you have. And while I'd be happy to look at as many revised things as you'd like, you do need to sleep!

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