Thursday, November 8, 2007

Final draft of Research paper

I am fully pleased with the way that my final draft of the research paper I have been working on for the last few weeks. I have received allot of good feed back from friends teachers and other that I let read it. I found that making up my work cited page was not to bad at all. I just looked at the paper that you (DeBaker) gave us and if I ran in to any troubles I just looked in the book on the pages that you told us to and followed the steps. With my luck I am talking about how good I did and then I just fail. I still think that allot of students are having trouble with the MLA format but sooner or later I think that everyone will have a good understanding of what teachers want from stud ens when turning a work cited page in MLA format. You have told us so many times I have lost count that it is impossible to do MLA Format from memory which I now understand is totally true.

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.

Thursday, October 25, 2007

What I want people to get from reading my research paper

When I am finished with my paper I want people to understand what Non Hodgkin's Lymphoma is. I want them to understand that live is not over just because you have cancer. There are many clinics that you can go to that will help and give you options for what you can do and how you can enjoy the time you have left on this earth. I also am going to go into great detail about what treatments are available Non Hodgkin's Lymphoma as-well as some cancer centers in the United States that people can go to or look into that can answer questions that they may have. I want to give as much detail as I can about treatment so people don’t think that are stuck with what one doctor may be saying. I am going to give a little back ground about what Non Hodgkin's Lymphoma is and the places that it effect the human body but my main objective is let people know there are other ways to deal with this type of cancer instead of just giving up hope. The question that I will address is What are the treatments of Non Hodgkin's Lymphoma cancer? Is there a possible cure for this type of cancer?

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

What I found while doing my research...


At first I didn't really like the idea that we had to use the JCC library. I just thought that you could find just as much information online and have enough to write a research. I do still think that way but on the other hand after working with database I realized that it gives you a wider range of information that the internet just doesn't do all that well. I really like that when using the database it doesn't just give you a website to go to it looks at articles, magazines, books, and any other source that can give you valuable information. I think that this a a great was to to gather information. I got allot of my information off the web today but I really happy with the way that the research has been going. I have found tons of reliable resources that I will be using in my research paper.

I changed my topic to do my research paper on...

After taking some time and thinking about what my paper should be about and if people can relater to it I deciced that I am not going to do my research paper on elementary education programs I really want to do it on Non Hodgkin's lymphoma. This is one of the most common kinds of cancer. I myself do not have cancer that I know of but my grandmother and uncle do. My uncle has delt with the pain and suffering that comes with Non Hodgkin's lymphoma for the ten years. The real reson why I chose this as my research paper because I want to inform as many people as possible of what it is and how it will effect you life. There are alot of places that I will be getting my resources from and I hope by the time that I turn un my final draft that I will have informed enough people to have them thereselves or the people that are around you to take this information seriously and go get checked out

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

research paper blog

The topic that I chose to do my research is elementary education. The reason why I am doing research on this topic is because it is what I want to do for a career. I really like to work with children and there is not a better job in the world to me than to teach young children the skills that the will need to become a great student and a asset to whatever they chose to do in life. I really don’t know that much about what it is going to take to become an elementary teacher but since that is the career of my choice I fell that it a very good idea to get as much information about this topic that I can so I have a complete background on it. The main question that I am going to try to get across in my paper is that steps it takes to become a elementary education. The main question that I want to get across is what is the process that I will have to go through to complete in order to become a successful teacher. Some sub questions that I am going to look into is what university in the surrounding area has the best elementary education program is available to me. Do I have to take more or less classes to become an elementary teacher or do i take the same classes that a person would if they are going to become a junior high or high school teacher. I am going to get as much information that I can about the topic by looking online and I want to talk to some of my current teachers about what they had to go threw to get to this point in their career and if they are currently working on anything else that would excel them to become a better teacher for example going back to college to get a master degree in the field of their choice

Sunday, October 14, 2007

half way already

Well as I sit here looking back thinking about what I have experienced over the last eight weeks. I realized that time has been going by really fast. I took four years off before returning to school and what I noticed the most is that college and high school are like day and night. I think that college is much more easier. teachers work with you unlike the high school i went through it just seemed like they just wanted to push you threw classes and get you the hell out of their hair. I like the flexibility of classes and there is the major factor that you are not forced on going to classes like you are when you are in high school. You are there for a general reason and you don't have to take all those pointless boring classes. I must say that I am very happy with the way my classes are going and as of right I am enjoying college to the fullest but I am sure that will change!!!!