I learned many new ideas about writing in the field of study that I am wanting to pursue in. I was unaware of how many different types of writing there was in the field of business. I learned about what kind of writing business people use and several different forms of it. I also learned the meaning of academic and non-academic writing and how it is used in the business world.
My assumptions for writing in the field of business was that usually everyone wrote the same way. I figured that everyone would have to write papers like we write in school but they actually only write emails on a daily bases and that is about the extent of their writing. However, if you're in school then its a different stories. A daily routine of writing for probably be at least two pages a day. I figured I would find more academic sources in the field of business but the only thing I could find was business proposals or business plans which only happen a couple of times for every business.
The challenges that I had when writing this assignment was when I had to research for academic sources. There weren't many sources that I could find that related to the people that I had interviewed. From what I gathered from the people that I interviewed was that they don't do much academic writing. However, I found that every business has to start somewhere and it has to start with a business plan which takes an academic paper to perform.
I learned that I have a long road to travel in school with my writing techniques and abilities. It helped talking to someone who is about to graduate from business school because he was able to share with me the practices that he does with writing. It has influenced me to become a better writer because if I am going to be able to survive in business school then I will need to know how to write a great paper. His writing compared to mine was a significant difference. My weaknesses are sentence structure, vocabulary, and research ability. My strength are being able to portray the meaning of my writing.
I found group conferences very useful. I was able to gather much needed information from not only my teacher but some good advice from my classmate as well. When I walked out of the meeting I felt ready to write my final draft. I feel like it was a great way for me to get a good critique. When I see a side note on my paper saying that I did something wrong in my writing, it usually doesn't say much so I don't usually know how to take care of the problem to fix it. It was useful to be able to hear in person what was wrong with my paper that way I can ask questions and someone can explain to me what I am doing wrong. I thought it was a great idea to do these conferences with a partner because it made me feel comfortable and I was able to get more ideas from another student. I feel as if I would not have done as well on my final draft with out the conference.
Reflection for Research Paper
When I started writing this paper, I was having trouble finding and narrowing down to a topic. The instructions were that we were to choose a topic that had relevance to our major that we were studying. I don't have a major figured out yet so I wasn't sure what path I should choose to choose a topic. So I chose something that I figured I would know a lot about and something that I felt strongly about and that was that college tuition is too high. The first thing that I did was write my outline. I jotted down some main points that I was going to use and then started forming ideas that I could use for those topics. Some good research ideas that I could use in my paper. One of the harder things that I had problems with was finding an academic source again. I had troubles with this last time because I didn't know what website to use. This time I found a great website that I could use. The only problem was that I was looking for specific research and there wasn't always something that was covering what I was talking about specifically. Therefore, I had to change up some of my topics. Before this class I have never used academic sources before and I found that I got some really good information off of this website and in these academic pieces.
The difference between a research based argument paper and a research based information paper is that the argument paper is purposely presenting a problem and saying that something is wring and that it needs to be changed, and then normally presenting a proposal on how it should be changed. The informational paper is to inform people of some research that they found.
Reflection on Remediation Assignment 3/31/15
The purpose of my remediation project was to transform my research paper that talked about college tuition being to high into a website. It was a lot easier than I thought it was going to be. I felt like it was harder to get my main point across in the website because I couldn't have as much information that I had had in my paper. I found that it was easier to use my outline for this assignment because it was structured more like a website should be.
My target audience did not change when I changed my paper into a website. If any changed were to occur to my audience it was be that it would be easier to understand and that it was more attractive in the appearance.
I was able to use pictures in my website and designs and bullet points. If I had to chose to either read the website or the paper I would read the website because it is short and to the point, its colorful, and easy to understand. However, if you are looking for more information then you would need to read the paper because there is more factual information that I spent a lot of time researching. I feel like I was able to organize my paper better when it was on a website. Bullet point and sub headings make things easier to read and understand. The website allowed me to add a lot of cool extras that really made the page pop. It also showed me how to make the website.
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