Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Essay Reflection
For me, writing this essay was pretty fun. I love having an iPod and I find the impact of technology on our culture really interesting. I thought finding research to back up my statements would be difficult, but it wasn’t at all. I guess this is because the iPod is such a large symbol in our culture. The introduction is one of my favorite parts of this essay because I’m proud of it. Usually, the introductions I write for research papers are much more bland. I decided to take a risk and I think it paid off. I tried to incorporate this kind of snarky vocabulary into the rest of my paper too. I also learned some new information from this paper. I didn’t know the difference between hard drive storage or flash memory. Now I do. If I could change anything, I think I’d edit the section about “having a soundtrack to your life.” It doesn’t sound scholarly enough. I was really excited about this essay because I thought I did a good job writing it, but now that I look back, I’m not so sure. That always happens it seems like. It’s kind of depressing.
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It's funny you should mention that you thought your introduction for this essay was better than your average research paper, I felt the same way about mine. I used a different technique than I was used to and it came out quite well.
ReplyDeleteAnd it is a good thing to be happy with your work, for a lot of people that's all that matters in the end. I'm rarely satisfied with my papers but I've learned that I'm usually more of a perfectionist with my paper than the person grading it so I've stopped worrying about it. If you think that you have improved than you probably have.
I'm happy to see you learned a lot about your small object while writing this paper. It seems that even if we all know an object so well, that we may not know it very well at all! I saw the same thing while writing my paper.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I agree, we the effect it has on us, but sometimes not how it works. Like a DVD player. I have no clue how it plays DVDs.
ReplyDeleteErin, I'm glad that you also had success using a different technique. It's nice to change things up right?