Reflection Entry #37 May 24 ,2009

Today I lost 40 mins of my class time in typing my essay because of computer difficulties and only got 20 minutes to complete my essay. I worked in a rush today in the last 20 minutes and that's why my last paragraph of my 1st characteristic doesn't make sense. I think if I ask Mr. Sparks for the 40 mins I lost earlier today in break or lunch maybe I'll be able to make additions and improvemnets in my essay. I really need to boost up my speed because i have 1089 words and I've only completed my 1st characteristic. I think I should take some time off from typing everything and select the information I want to have in the essay. This is because I'm getting really confused with the information I'm putting in the essay and I'm sure that at this rate I'll exceed the word limit by a lot. Also it cuts down the amount of information I have to write. The other option I have is: Instead of copying every piece of information from each notecard, what I can do is read the whole note card and then summarize it by making it simple and brief. This way I can minimize the amount of word limit so this strategy could be used for shortening the word limit. Also doing this allows me to write only the important bits and not too much information which can get me to finish typing everything in the amount of time. I also have to do something about my bibliography. All the links are messed up. I don't think I'll have enough time to do my bibliograohy, so what i can do is go to the library at break, lunch, or after school, go to easy bib and complete my bibliography as the links are already saved on a word document. So I have plenty of work to do and hopefully with these strategies i can complete these tasks in the limited amount of time I have. The good thing is even with limited amount of time I'm still working productively and trying to complete the essay with all the information needed. And for the past few weeks I've avoided being distracted and really focused on my work. What I could've done better in the project is that: I could've really summarized the text briefly during the research, because most of the summarzing i did is too complicated with too much unneeded information and I'm having troubles in understanding my sources that's why I'm going to use the pition of only highlighting the text in the notecards I need for each characteristic and then typing the highlighted bits.