Reflection Entry #38 May 25 ,2009

Today I was able to greatly reduce my word limit and I almost made it toward the end of the essay with 989 words. Since we are going to finish the essay on Thursday, I decided to do the bibliography as homework today (which I'm going to do after typing my reflection) and so in the other lessons I'll have time to finish, edit and improve my essay. What I did really good today, and I'm surpirsed is that I typed really fast today from the beggining of the essay till the end. When we were getting close to the end I decided it would be good if I take out the uneeded words from my essay like ancient, and other adjectives. This helped me to greatly reduce my word limit by 400 0r 500. I think another reason i had trouble with rising word limit was that in my notecards my information is not summarized enough and I've put in every single piece of information instead of the important one. This causes me troubles plenty of times because I have to choose the information I want to put in to prevent the word limit from going higher. So the strategy I used today was: When I was writing a paragraph for a characteristic, I took all the note cards of that characteristic read them through, and then remember the important information and type it down in the essay. What I realized as we are moving toward the end of the project is that I could've be more organised. For instance my plan: It was a whole barrage of ideas put in one place and in the wrong order which made it really complicated and the plan became no use to me. If i arranged the steps of my plan properly it would've made it easier for me to understand and the same thing: I put in too much information instead of making it simple and precise. Also I was always in a rush when typing my essay, when instead I could've gone over my note cards to decide on what I need and what I don't need. I really need to improve in these parts so I can do better in future projects.