Friday, November 2, 2007

reflection on research paper

After submitting my research paper online I found that I need to work on rewording my sentences. I don’t think that I did bad on writing this paper because a lot of it is my paper according the turnitin.com. Most of my hits that were found are at the beginning of my paper. So I need to look at my paper and reword some things to get my percent of my paper down. Which my percent of the paper that is my writing ands rewording is over 90 percent. I am not sure if we are not aloud to have any percent not being ours but I am sure that you (Debaker) will let us know either in a blog comment or just talk with us in class on Tuesday. I know that I did not just copy and paste the stuff that is in there but I cant but wonder what people are going to think when they see that there is percent that I supposedly didn’t write. I like the idea that we do turn our papers in to turnitin.com but on the other hand It makes me feel like others might not believe that I wrote some of the things in my paper I guess I need to either rewrite the stuff that come up or just cite the information. Wither way it is not a hard thing to fix but citing the information is going to be easier in my eyes because even if you do reword things it always seems to say that something is a copy of others work. I can’t believe that the semester is already close to an end. I think the next few weeks that we have left are going to be busy times and we have a lot of work still ahead.

1 comment:

Dave DeBaker said...

When it comes to turnitin.com, you only really need to worry about some of the stuff you are seeing in green. The other things are false hits that you really can't change. But you might want to consider putting some of them in quotes and citing them, especially when you list things.

As for your paper, I really like what you have so far. The organization on this paper is great and the grammar issues you've had are almost gone.

The one thing you want to look out for is making sure your paragraphs are all about one thing. Look closely for sentences that might not need to be in a paragraph because it doesn't relate to the information around it.

Other than that, just keep doing what you're doing.