Critical Reflextion 4

When writing my Research Paper I used many different goals, three of the main goals I think I used were, thinking, reading, and writing. My first goal, thinking, I feel I used by reading different articles to have a better understanding for my topic and for having a better understanding of other views that are associated with my topic. Also when doing my research I considered different perspectives of the people that may be reading my essays. For instance I know that many people who may be looking at my essay are in college so they have a general understanding for many key topics that I am talking about so I know I do not need to go into great depth when describing something. I also now have worked to understand how to better understand and evaluate evidence. For instance when I first started I watched movies for my main research but I did not know how to evaluate them properly. After working on understanding the movie better and talking to my peers about it I know have a better understanding for this. My next goal is reading. I struggled with analyzing articles and understanding where the data was coming from in the beginning of this semester. With help from my teacher and peers I now know how to find where the data a article is from and how important it is to find out about the articles author before writing. I also have a better understanding for analyzing, mostly be trial and error. When I first started my movie analysis's were way to long and then piece by piece I learned how to shorten them, while still keeping the valuable information. My last goal that I will be covering is my writing  goal. Before starting this class I struggled with developing well supported arguments and refuting counter arguments. I have now learned how to do this, something that helped me a lot with supporting my arguments were the essays that we did in the beginning, like "The Weir" these essays helped me because they required a lot of thought and they made me really work towards a strong argument. I also have been able to identify, narrow and develop a topic that is appropriate for my research paper, I did this by looking up interesting topics, and in class we did an activity that really helped me narrow down what I should write about (bubble). lastly with my research paper I am now learning how to support a thesis using credible, appropriate, accurate, and sufficient source material. Supporting my thesis has been a bit of a challenge for me and finding credible material has also been a little challenging. The class discussion that we did on thesis's helped me understand more of what a thesis was and also having a general understanding of the importance of a scholarly article before I started this semester helped a lot.