Unit 10 Finished another term at Kaplan.

Here is my last post for this term I may take a break but am hoping to start back up when the new term begins. Hope you all have a wonderful Holiday and a safe one too.

What advice would you now give to someone writing his/her first scientific paper? 
                Start early and ask a lot of questions. Possibly research what a scientific paper includes and what the requirements are before you start.

 What areas do you feel you strengthened in the past 10 weeks?
                 I feel I stregthened in my outlining and free writing I can jot down ideas and make outlines with the information in order by importance better than I did before.

 What areas do you feel still need improvement in regards to writing?

                         I still need to get better at making Thesis statements and preparing paragraphs and with APA format especially since it changed since the last time I had to use it.

 Any final thoughts or statements to make before we wrap up?

                    Just enjoy what you do and when picking a topic make sure it is something that you can find all the information you want to add and list some possible alternate information to include just in case one choice falls through.

Week 9 thoughts

Ok here we are in Unit 9, just this week and one more and we are free to do whatever we want until Jan 5th. I guess I am scared and anxious about the terms to come and realizing that almost a yr ago I started college and about 1 year left to go it is making me happy and determined to go forth and finish what I started. I can not wait till I am done and can go out and start my career. To all those that are reading this I wish that you all have the best of luck and success in all you do. 

 With your paper done or almost done, how do you feel ?

             OMG where do I begin? I am just hoping to get my paper done and turned in and get the most possible points I can to finish this class with at least a B.

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

               I am kind of scared that I will not finish my paper in time and am hoping I find the umph to finish it on time.

  How do you feel about writing at this point? Has your idea of writing changed throughout the course?

                          I hope and pray that I never have to actually do any papers like this in the future. I feel I like writing in blogs and places like Face Book more than writing research papers because they are far less formal and do not require extensive research.

  What other topics would you like to research?

                   As of right now I would like to look more into many different topics and learn more but not have to write a paper on them. It just seems that papers are not something I am interested in.

My thoughts during Unit 8

I feel kind of weird writing this blog every week, I do not get as many comments as I thought I would have. I guess it is a good thing for me to write my thoughts down in this blog because no matter what I can not delete it unless I forget my password. LOL I would like to continue writing after I finish this course but not too sure if I will. I am a member of Face Book and I post there as well. This has been good for me this term as I am struggling to put my thoughts out in the DB and here I can type and it does not matter if I make sense or not. I am very glad this opportunity was given to me. I have thought about keeping a blog before but did not really know how to do it. I might just change my mind and keep this going after this course is done. Now if I can keep typing while my fingers are freezing LOL. I can not promise that I will do it every week but I will post as often as I can.

My feelings about the peer reviews

Ok so the question layed out before me is What did I think of the peer reviews? Well here is my answer....I really enjoy receiving the peer reviews, but I do not like giving them. I feel good when a fellow classmate takes the time to read my writing and lets me know where I am strong and what needs work. I love reading others thoughts and ideas about the topic I am writing about. I do not mind reading my classmates work but I do not like telling them what I feel is good or what needs improvement. I feel that if there are flaws in my paper who am I to try and tell someone else what is good or not good in theirs. I do not mean to take all my peers thoughts and not give back in return, it is just hard for me to pick things out that I feel are good or bad. I hope no one takes this personally but it is really hard for me to tell people what I like and what I do not. I am trying really hard to so just bare with me. Hopefully you all are having a great week and I hope you all had a great ThanksGiving. "see" you all in seminar.

ROUGH DRAFT & PDO

OMG I am so far behind. I am really feeling the demand of school and children at this point. 3 of my kids have been coming home with school projects and none of them seem to know how to do anything they are supposed to do. I know what I want to cover in my paper it is just hard to find enough information for the paper to come together. I know we can not use web sites that end in .com or .org and so finding enough info in the KU library is kind of hard. All the articles I have found so far are talking about foreign country statistics and I am not sure that is good enough. I just have a major headach after the day is done trying to read all the material I have found and just get too tired to write anything so I have all these notes and it is hard to put everything together. So as you all can see this last 6 weeks I have been in a writers block/ kind of almost meltdown. Hard to explain but bottom line is I can not tell you how many times I have literally just wanted to give up. I know I shpould not think that but I so want to pass this class and I feel now that I may have chosen the wrong topic to write about. Oh well too late to ponder that right now I better get started on this paper and get busy finishing up my rough draft at least I got the introduction finished.  I am going to work double time and just keep telling myself that this is the rough draft and I still have time to make it better. Good luck with all your papers and hopefully I will get over this little attitude I have LOL.

UUgghh the prewriting phase

I have actually started the term paper and if I do say so myself I feel I am off to a very good start. I hate the prewriting phase the most I think, because everytime I go back to it and read what I have written I feel I need to change it. I am trying very hard to come up with a strong solid thesis statement but it is very hard, here is what I have so far....

Many of today’s youth are making very grown up choices, with very severe repercussions some of which may have long lasting effects, none of which teenagers are ready for. These include but are not limited to regret of choices, possible domestic problems, continuing chain of events, and monetary downfalls.

Please feel free to leave comments I need all the help I can get. I also need help finding some good solid info so if any of you are doing Preventing Teenage Pregnancy as your topic and found some references that may not have worked for you please let me know they may work for me. I have to get a feel for the APA format soon and am hoping to get my reference page done and over with and not have to make any changes. LOL I am hoping everyone else is under way on their paper and that it is going smoothly.Other than doing my paper I am busy trying to stay on top of my daughters assignments in 7th grade as well she has 2 projects due within a couple of days of each other and it is sad because I do not recall having this much homework when I was in jr high. Well I do not know what else to say except I better get my toosh in gear and get back to my paper. Hopefully I can keep this momentum going and hit all the deadlines. Thanks for listening and hope to hear from you all soon.

Unit 4 starting on 11-03-2010

Here is my blog entry for this week. I should really get on here more often which I am going to try. I am haveing difficulties with starting my research for my paper and am getting nervous that I will not have my information ready in time. I am a very big procrastinator and I really need to change but find it very hard to. Please any suggestions will greatly appreciated.

hope you like my post this week.

•         Based upon your reading on plagiarism, why do you think we need to cite our sources?

            From what I have read on plagiarism, I feel it is necessary to cite where and who we get out information from because the stuff we may use is not our own thoughts. We must give credit to those who came up with the stuff we are taking our info from. Like if we were to invent something we would need to get a patent to protect our ideas.

•         What would you do if someone used something you created without giving you credit?

              If someone was to use my ideas in the work enviroment and I knew they were my ideas and had proof I would go to someone higher up and let them know. If I did not have proof I would most likely do nothing because I am just that type of person I hate confrontation and would not know what to do about it.

•         Consider some of the real-world plagiarism issues you have learned of that include professionals. How should those issues be handled?

                I feel plagiarism although it is bad is not something where legal action needs to be taken. You see it all the time in situations where toys or food may be copied. Like the toy Pillow Pals where the pillow doubles as a toy I see the exact same thing at a local retailer but there it is called a pillow pet. I am not totally sure if that is a type of plagiarism or not so feel free to correct me. I think that if plagiarism is learned about people would not commit it as often, at least I hope not LOL.

•         Does the Internet blur the lines of “legally owned”? Consider sites like YouTube and Wikipedia.

                  I am not totaly sure what the saying "blur the lines" means so anyone that reads this please comment on this portion especially so that I may answer at a later date.