Reflection Entry #39 May 26 ,2009

I worked well today and tried to put all my effort. But the information in my essay does not refer to the concept of time. Although my essay consists of plenty of useful information, I need to try to refer it to the concept of time as the essay is based on it. I've decided that I'll complete my essay on thursday, print it out as a draft, read it over, discard and improve information, if my words are over the limit, reduce them by taking out unneccesary words. This should take me about 15-20 minutes if I work diligently. Since I didn't have enough time to do my bibliography because i was so busy with my essay I emailed my self the lnks and did the bibliogarphy at home and I printed it out. This way my work amount is reduced and I just need to worry about finishing my essay and improving the information that needs improvement. The information I need to improve is that some times I explain too much about a topic, I need to delete the unneeded and try to put in information that is breif explains everyting and follows PEA. Then I can type the improvements and look for transitions about how Time refers to the information I have. To make it easier for me to look for transitions refering to time, I came up with a guiding question: How did Time influence these characterisitcs? this G.Q. allows me to narrow down my search on any topic. That's what I learned about guiding questions, they narrow down your research and only allow you to take only the information important to you. I'm not going to research this information on the web but in my note cards which have plenty of information and I'm sure that they have some transitions that refer to time. What I did well today was that I concentrated well on my work and for the first time I wasn't panicked and didn't rush. I calmly went over my notecards selecting the information i needed. and then typed it. I still regret that I could've improved my plan and made it more organised and easy to follow. My plan is a complete mess because I was in a rush. The diagram I drew has too much information in it. So another thing I learned in this project is that writing unnecesary information is a waste of time and too complicated to undertsnad but if you write a few bullet points with the right information, you can drive home the message. I learned that the hard way from my note cards. I put in every piece of information when researching and now I'm struggling to choose the right information from the massive amount of information I have in my note cards. If I made the notes mor simpler and only had the important information I would've been able to easily complete my essay.