Face to Face Conferences

I think the hardest part of writing my research paper was picking the topic. I had plenty of ideas but I did not know how to turn those ideas into a 7 page research paper. I finally decided on gun control because it held my interest more than the other topics. Even though it held my interest I had a hard time extending the length of my first draft. I knew what revisions I needed to make but once I did revise I still had a whole page that I needed to write to fit the criteria.

I ended up deciding it was important to say in my paper about how the authors of my sources did the same throughout their books. I did this because when I was looking through my sources before I started my paper I noticed everything started to get repetitive and I was interested to why these facts were coming up in every single piece.

I think I enjoyed the face-to-face conferences more than online editing. I got more out of it. It helped that you were able to interact with the person peer editing your paper, you can ask question to what they are saying and you can ask them to show you places where to improve. I feel like online editing just says in general what to do better but face-to-face shows specifics. I would have been really lost on my final draft it they didn’t tell me how to expand my paper and what to do to make it better. I thought that my paper was pretty good, but they showed me that it could be better.

They thing I got away from, from the conferences was that my paper needed to be more scholarly. It made it seem like my paper wasn’t up to college level which I wouldn’t of been able to understand on my own. I also got showed the things that were good in my paper, and that helped a lot because I knew to put more of that in when I edited my paper.