For my paper, I will be researching and expanding my previous essay on how to reduce and repurpose trash consumption. This research paper will also include on how reducing trash and finding ways to repurpose it will benefit the earth in various ways. In final draft submitted, a few silly mistakes stuck out to me that I will have to go in and fix for the final research paper, such as MLA 8 formatting, editing grammar, going into depth, and point of view issues. I will have to go in and do additional research with academic scholarly journals to provide further details and topics to discuss. I feel more comfortable expanding this essay because there are so many ideas that I can go into depth about with this topic.
My introduction needed to be "developed" and expanded. I am going to build up a strong sense of direction with my introduction and make more topic ideas to discuss in my research paper. This will give my paper a good foundation to build up on and lengthen my paper to go into great depth. I am going to outline my paper by describing what I am trying to say in my thesis statement. I feel very confident in my thesis statement but I just need to embellish more afterwards to create a clear understanding of my topic and how I will relate my resolutions to my themes.
In my actual paper, I experienced some grammar issues. I will have to go back in and edit them before I even start expanding my research paper. This is important to a successful paper because it provides a clear understanding to the paper because it will be grammatically correct. Some of my mistakes included, commas, tense issues, pronoun references, and pluralization. Most of these errors were silly overlooked mistakes due to not proofreading my rough or final drafts. Another issue I noticed in my grading rubric and essay was incorrect use of audience and point of view. I unknowingly used "you" not realizing that I should have stuck to a general point of view using the word "people" instead. I also noticed I used the word "[t]his" when I could have easily fixed this mistake to the word "[u]pcycling". This act would have shown and provided more clarity to the sentence for the audience to understand what I was inferring. Another big part to my paper will be going into depth and clarifying my thoughts by expanding on them in the body. I wasn't too clear on them but I will be this time around. These mistakes could have easily been pinpointed and fixed if I had just taken the little to no time to reread all the text that I typed.
In my works cited paper, I needed to list out the actual page numbers of the essays and not the actual page number of the quote that I cited. This act will show the audience the physical pages of the essay to find it in a book. I also needed to refrain from repeating information when citing the same anthology but different passages. This information included, the title and publication information of the book. I also need to correct a few minor errors on my new works cited page that I brought into class for the academic journal citations. These small tweaks will change my research paper for the better.
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My research paper will discuss ways of reducing, reusing and recycling along with benefits of these actions.
(http://www.tvwatershed.org/reduce-reuse-recycle/)
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My introduction needed to be "developed" and expanded. I am going to build up a strong sense of direction with my introduction and make more topic ideas to discuss in my research paper. This will give my paper a good foundation to build up on and lengthen my paper to go into great depth. I am going to outline my paper by describing what I am trying to say in my thesis statement. I feel very confident in my thesis statement but I just need to embellish more afterwards to create a clear understanding of my topic and how I will relate my resolutions to my themes.
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I am going to embellish my introduction to be more clear.
(http://www.comlib.org/event/ymca-creative-writing-workshop/)\
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Editing will make a big improvement to my research paper alone.
(http://www.clker.com/clipart-editing.html)
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In my works cited paper, I needed to list out the actual page numbers of the essays and not the actual page number of the quote that I cited. This act will show the audience the physical pages of the essay to find it in a book. I also needed to refrain from repeating information when citing the same anthology but different passages. This information included, the title and publication information of the book. I also need to correct a few minor errors on my new works cited page that I brought into class for the academic journal citations. These small tweaks will change my research paper for the better.
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This is an example of citing an anthology.
(http://lib.pstcc.edu/c.php?g=106731&p=693754)
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