Final Thought

As we bring this term to an end I have a great deal of mixed emotions.  I am glad it is over and that I did turn in paper that got me full credit for the work that went into it. 

When you get used to something you tend to miss it when its gone.  That is how I feel about this class.  I will miss it.  It has brought me to have a better understanding of the different writing processes that are out there.

I have a greater passion now for writing now then I did in the past.  I did walk away with a vast knowledge of proper use of different techniques.  I am forever grateful for all that I have learned and I owe a deal great of gratitude to my Professor Julie who was always there willing and able to help us out.

Thank you for all that you have done for me this term Professor Julie and with that being said, wishing all a great holiday and a Happy New Year.

Do you feel nervous, accomplished, or just plain tired?

As we enter week 9, which means that there is only one more week left. I have many feelings.

I am nervous, do feel accomplished and I am tired.  I am nervous because you put your work up for all to view you do feel nervous about their reaction.  You are worried did you do a good job, have captured what you set out to do.  How will your audience and Professor review your work? 

I feel accomplished because this is what these last 9 weeks have been about.  Bringing the final paper to light.  I know I have worked hard and done a great deal of research on this topic and I am glad that it is time to get the feedback that we have building for each week.

I also feel tired because after 9 weeks and many hours of research and changes I am just tired of changing things not knowing whether the changes are for the good or bad.

As I close this term out though I have learned a great deal of tools that will further carry me through the online learning process.  I came in not knowing what a research paper was or how to begin one and I walk away with a research paper on a topic that does not get much attention.  Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is not a topic that gets a lot of attention due to the fact that it means that a mother has been abusing alcohol while pregnant.  Although it goes way beyond her poor choice and takes a look at how children born with this disease will have very challenging lives and how communities are turning their back on them thinking its not there problem that their parent chose to drink while pregnant.  In reality I have learned that it does affect the community also.  It affects them in areas of schools, health care cost, jails, and a host of other problems that they have to deal with.  Who is speaking up for these babies that were given a raw deal from the point of conception?

Thank you all for these last nine weeks and I did think this was going to be corny but I have come to enjoy this blog thin.  Till next week which is the final week stay blessed and have a great week.

How do you feel about the comments, or lack of comments, that have been made to your blog posts?

As we enter week eight of our term and I review all that I have done this term, I do not mind that no one has commented on made any post to my blog.  At first it did bother me because I would follow people and then comment on their post and thought that they would do the same.  Then I realized that they may have many things going on in their lives and for them to just be able to post to their blog may have been difficult.

I understand now that each and everyone of our lives are different and unique in its own way.  I just wish all my classmates the best in their writing ability.   If you care to comment then do so and if not its okay also.  If I read a blog and I want to comment on then I will.  Sometimes I get to busy also to even do that.

Keeping up with blog after this term will happen since its already started and its not going to go away, why not get more practice writing buy using this forum.   I guess I will have to pick and chose the topics I care to talk about but then I can do that now.  I just really like having some direction with it but we shall see what happens.

Have a great week and soon this term will be over.

How do you feel about peer reviews? What have your experiences with them been like?

As we prepare for our peer reviews on our rough drafts there was a time when I would be overwhelmed about this. I did not like to be critiqued about my writing but since I have been at KU I have learned that its good to get other people opinions regarding your writing.

I learned that they can bring a different approach to the process something that you may have missed or even something that you may add that will help the paper.

It is difficult to get a review that is not what you were expecting but I have learned to look at it as this is one persons opinion may it be wrong or right these are just suggestions that they feel will make the paper better does not mean I have to use them or incorporate it into my paper.

My last six weeks in Kaplan University

I have chose to write about Topic One:

Share what you have personally been dealing with the last six weeks.

In the last six weeks I have endured a great deal with all the writing projects and the research that I have been involved in.  It has been very exhausting and trying to come up with a great research paper that will keep me in the A status has been very overwhelming.

I sometimes find that I may not meet the outcomes that my professors are looking for.  I strive so hard to do the the material and get the research right and then I doubt my abilities to bring it together.  I do realize that we are our hardest critics and that I should relax and feel competent about the work that I am producing but it is hard sometimes.

Week 5-Prewriting

As we enter week five and start to talk about the different methods that we can use to start our final paper rough draft it has become a bit overwhelming.

I do know what I want to say and the style I would have to say that probably works for me is free writing.  I just write and hope that when I start to organize these notes that I can figure out what it is I want to say. 

Writing a a research paper had been a daunting experience for me so far.  I have been all over the Internet trying to gain some type of direction and I have found some good ideas, I guess I am going to have to start incorporating what I have found out.  Just so afraid that I may not get this right and with the rough draft looming (which is due in a week) I get more nervous. 

I am going to try and relax and really figure this out.  Having the research is not enough not to organize all of these notes and stuff.  So much to incorporate.  Give me strenght.

Just a thought

You have the ability to command anything.  Here is something you can say to command that negative thoughts leave you.

"Be gone.!  You have no part in me.  I am Spitit, I harbor only the good and perfect thoughts of Spirit."

Never were truer words spoken.