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.

Plagiarism

Sorry I just read the questions this weeks blog topics and I want to add to it since my blog did not cover this portion.

Plagiarism is just wrong.  It is important to give credit for the work we cite because if it was us that had written something we would want it cited properly.  I am sure nobody would want their work used and not given credit for it.  Although this may happen it is wrong and I think the person that does it should be held accountable for it. 

I have been taught through my professors at KU if in doubt cite it.  It is better to have to many than not enough so I do try to follow that guideline.   I am pretty good at giving credit for the authors work.

I have learned a great deal on this subject matter since going back to school and i am sure I have done this in the past using people works without knowing that I was plagiarism.  Now that I know I am very careful in this area.

Research, Citations, & Plagiarism

I do not have problems with the research and plagiarism part of this discussion.  I am quite confident that I can research and avoid plagiarism.  What I have problems with is citations.  I am not sure how to resite or when to place it in a paper.  I struggle with this area.  I do seem to get it right but I am often worrying if I am doing it right.  What also gives me such grief is the reference page.  I am always confused about that page.  I know we put it in alpha order and stuff but how to do it correctly is what gives me trouble.  I have lost points on past papers due to referece page.  Any suggestions would ve glady appreciated.

November 1, 2010

You are a partnership with the law of attraction, and it is through this partnership between the two of you that you are creating your life.  Each person has their own personal partnership with the law of attraction.  You use the law for yourself; everyone else uses the law of attraction for themselves.  You cannot use the law of attraction on someone else, against their free will.  And when you think abut it thank goodness the law operates this way.  If it did not then anybody else could create something in your life that you did not want.

You create through your thoughts and feelings and no-one but you can think your thoughts or feel your feelings