Literacy Reflection Paper

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Looking back at my high school self, distastefully writing that Literacy Narrative and comparing it to where I now as I write this paper, there are some changes in my literary practices but nothing redefining. Writing narratives -was the worst type of paper then, and writing narratives is still my least enjoyed form of writing now. This is probably more due to my reserved/self-contained personality than writing itself, but that mindset it still there. Taking a step back and looking at literary writing in general, I still am not to found of doing it and still dread the idea needing to write something. Though I do I enjoy writing stuff such as lab reports and data analysis, it never translated to literary. Again this probably related to me being …show more content…

Though I do have basic thesis completed, it doesn’t provide an exact direction for which the paper will be going. After being able to finalize a thesis, I feel the rest of the pieces will start falling into place. Although I don’t have the thesis completed yet, I can still say I still need more information about the effects fracking has on the people in the community. This information will most likely coming from popular sources, rather than peer reviewed journals, as I believe I will it will draw a clearer picture of the impact fracking has on the people. To improve the argumentation of my research paper, I feel like I need to sort of go out on a limb in my thesis statement. To be able to efficiently develop an argumentative essay based of my research, I need to first understand what that research. Like the article summary paper, I need to be able paraphrase what the article says effectively without losing any of its meaning. Coupled with this, I need to take that research and build it into my own mound that will support the limb I went out on in my thesis. In order to accomplish this successfully, I will need to focus on find those hidden common threads between the articles so I can tie them

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