What advice would you now give to someone writing his/her first scienfific paper.

Hello everyone, well here we are at the end of our term, I must say it went so fast and I am going to miss this class and everyone. I have learned so much throughout the term, but the one thing that I would like to comment on is what advice would I now give to someone writing his/her first scientific paper. First of all I would say that no matter how intimidated you are on starting to write we have all got to start somewheres, so it is always better to start early with doing research. I never realized how much actually goes into writing but a person cannot just sit down and write a paper and turn it in, oh no no no there is so much more to it. Like when I first started comp. 1 class I never knew about plagiarism and how serious it is but I do now. Writing is not just about putting stuff down on paper, it is about plagiarism, grammar, in text citing, paragraph structure, run on sentences, references, and so much more. When you write your first paper, and you have to write peer reviews think of it as a way of learning and not as someone is critisizing your work. I really like the idea of peer reviews because I learned from them and used them in my paper, to make my paper sound better, it is always helpful to have another set of eyes looking at your paper and giving you ideas. The biggest advise to someone is to start early and keep motivated, because in the end it all works out. Good luck to everyone in their careers.

How do I feel about my paper being done?

Hello everyone, can you believe that we are done with our term already, I have learned so much this term and enjoyed the class, and I must say I loved Julies giggle during seminar it kept me motivated. I am finish with my paper, and yes I do feel relieved to have accomplished it in order to hand it in on time, as I said I was intimidated with the thought of writing another paper, but once I sat down and got started on it I was ok. I think the hardest time I am having with writing a paper is to do a argumentive comment, I am really not too sure on that yet, since I do not like to argue. I must say I feel a little worried about the grade on my paper, if I did it all correctly, but that is the only way we learn is by good strong critisism. I am always looking at ways to improve writing, so I am always open to new ideas. My feelings about writing at this point is that the more you do it the more relaxed and easier things flow. I have learned so much within College Comp. 1 and College Comp. 2 such as what plagiarism is really about and how serious of a offense it is. I never realized that writers go through so much when they sit down and write it is just amazing, so now when I read something I actually look for transitions and how they themselves write. I think that for us to understand a topic or subject the best way is to just sit down and research and write a paper about it, because there is so much to learn on a subject. Well that's all for now, I wish everyone luck in their future.

Issues I had throughout the blog process

Considering the problems I had with setting up my blog, and not know really how to communicate with blogs I think I did a half way decent job with posting to my own blog. I enjoyed setting up the blog even though I was not able to really know how to communicate with other classmates. I was proud of myself for being able to finally figure out how to do it and to be able to get a picture in it that was out of my own pictures. I was determined to keep working on putting my blog together until I accomplished it, and guess what, being determined pays off. I would have loved to been able to communicate with others, but I think that alot of us did not know how to use blogs so there were probally not too many comments on peoples blogs. At least I know how to put together a blog if ever needed in my lifetime, it was a learning experience, like the saying goes you learn something new everyday.