what I learned this week pt.7

Week 7 down, only 3 more to go. I feel like every week I talk about how quickly time is going, but it never ceases to amaze me. Although we only met once during week 7, I thought our time together was extremely beneficial. Starting with the journal 7.2, right off the bat I was able to dive into my own paper and see what it was that I did differently from writing project 1 and how it worked out, better or worse. In my case, I took Zack’s advice from my WP1 and changed the organizational structure of my paper. Instead of writing about source #1, source #2, and source #3 in separate paragraphs, my WP2 unfolded in a more integrated/interwoven way like: idea #1 (and then incorporated sources 1, 2, 3), idea #2 (and then incorporated sources 1, 2, 3), idea #3 (and then incorporated sources 1, 2, 3). This helped hugely with the flow of my paper and made it much more reader friendly and easy to follow. Next, I enjoyed the socrative activity, as it was something that I had never done before. I thought it was very cool and almost had my intro discussed because I was in the top 4. Go me! Last but not least, the peer editing session was also extremely helpful. Its always nice to get outside ideas on how to better your paper because many of the things I had pointed out to me, I would’ve never thought about. I think this peer review session was more helpful than the last, purely due to the increased amount of time we had. Overall, I didn’t have anything critical to change about my paper and left feeling confident about it, only having a few small things to critique. After the last peer review, I left feeling very unconfident with my paper and I ended up not doing as well as I would’ve liked, so I’m interested to see if my confidence towards this paper will get me a better grade!