Writitng papers have never been easy and in this scenario it has been even harder. In my English 103 course that is wrapping up this week I am required to write a comprehensive 6 page paper on education. I chose to write about the budget cuts and how they are effecting education in a negative way. Throughout my research I have found out many statistics that just should not be realistic but the sad truth is that it is. I remember all my years in school, we had many programs offered to us throughout and things started getting tense financially two years ago when I was in high school. It is unfortunate the students now have to deal with all the cuts and the sad news is that the students are eventually going to be required to write a six page paper just like me, but will never have the proper knowledge of how to.
Through out my paper I have really realized how much I struggle with the organization. I have so much to say, I just do not know how to express it correctly into the essay and I loose my patients. I see that I need help in areas were I was never addressed before. This is where I question though, why it was never addressed before. I know I have been making the same mistakes but why didn’t my high school teachers catch it earlier to save me the frustration later on. This is a point in my paper as well because with the budget cuts this is going to be an issue; students will not have the dedicated teachers they deserve. I see it for myself now, in my own two shoes how important proper education is, since I am struggling with things now that should have been taken care of years before.
Due to the research paper I have be become familiar with “help”. I have asked for direction from many people. I address different people because they all see different things. It has helped me to not be scared to ask for help, and I once before was to stubborn to ask for help. I have learned all the internet sources that help you with grammar and things of that nature. I have learned to take full advantage of every resource available to me as well such as smart thinking (I love them). They taught me were the appropriate spots for commas and colons are, because I used to struggle in that area also.
Over all the research paper has been an experience in its self although it is not my first and I know I will not be my last. I am slowly learning how to take guidance and assistance. I have been taught how to punctuate correctly and when I am getting to wordy. The research paper will definitely help me in the long run with all essays, and I will just have to continue to work on the things I have yet to learn from the research project.

Gosh Darn Research Paper

This time of the year is the time I look forward to; less than a month left of school and in no time we will be on summer break. In order for me to enjoy my summer break though I have to get a couple things done in the classroom. In particular I have this six page research paper due in MLA format, by the end of this week. I enjoy writing papers but when the requirements get past three pages I start to get worried. When I read the directions for this particular assignment it made me feel good because my professor was only requiring four pages of the six to be completed at first, she has since changed it to five. It gave me a chance to have people look over it and help me with fixing the things she may catch before the final thing is do. Big assignments such as this one are the only thing I do not like about this time of the year.
I am worried about this assignment only because it is such a large chunk of the grade. I went to her office today to speak to her about it because there was a miscommunication with the topic choice of the paper. She gave me a lot of insight on how to make my paper better and how to narrow it down. I tend to have a lot of ideas and throw them all into the paper and that ends up ruining the paper. I look forward to sending my paper into smart thinking tutors because they help a lot with any type of paper. When I read their feedback I can make my paper look much different, and I appreciate their help.
One of the requirements my professor has listed is to cite and use a scholarly journal in our research, I am not very fond of this. I wish we could pick and choose what sources and from where we use them. It makes things more difficult when you have to remember to incorporate everything the professor wants just to meet the minimum and your work will or will not bring the grade to its maximum. I will most defiantly include all the things in my paper because I am hoping to pass the course with an A or B and to do so I know what needs to be done.
So far I have 2 full pages completed and I need three more, I am a little nervous on what information to include but time will allow me to find the right information and prepare it for my research paper and pretty soon it will be at the necessary six pages. I have taken all assignments serious but I feel like this one is the do or die assignment. Since I feel like this assignment is so detrimental to my grade I will take it seriously and do my best to complete it and get the desired grade I hope for.

Online Communication Style

It has been said often that patience is a virtue; unfortunately I could never perfect my inability to remain patient. When I speak with people it irritates me when I know what they are going to say but they put so many unneeded words in between the important text that I begin to grow inpatient. I often want to cut them off and finish their statement for them. The same goes when I communicate online with friends and family, sometimes they put superfluous information that confuses me, not to mention I once again lose my patience waiting on a reply when it should only take a couple seconds, but since they want to elaborate it takes longer. I have learned from all this and keep all my lines of communication as short and sweet and they need to be. There is a time and place for everything, so depending on who I am talking to and what one is asking is how elaborate my response will be weather in person or through online communication. I like to keep things as short as possible but use descriptive words to help guide the person I am talking to, to my main idea or thought. I take my own advice into consideration, I figure if I put too much into what I am saying I will lose the person I am speaking with to confusion. It is often harder to lose someone to confusion during an online conversation with very detailed responses just because it is hard to tell what point of view you are coming from since they cannot hear a tone or feel your emotion. Grammar is another thing, if the grammar in a text in not proper it will also cause confusion. It is just best overall to keep things detailed enough for one to follow but not to thorough that they get lost in your text or speech.
When I chat or email with people online I do not think they think much of my ways of communication because it is something we all practically do the same. We tend to short hand things and abbreviate words that do not need to be abbreviated for instance “YOU” as “U” and “AND” and “N”. I think when I others and I do such a thing, it shows a sign of laziness and impatience, both in which I have no problem admitting too. I like to give fast responses as much as I like to receive them, the point is much more important to me then the unnecessary information that others tend to provide. Unfortunately when we speak we cannot short hand much, our best bet is just to eliminate the extras and get straight to the point, this shows impatience I am sure, however the majority of the time I am on full schedule and my time is limited. If someone asks me a yes or no question, more than likely it will be exactly one of those two answers and nothing more, not even a reason as to why, just to save time and get to the idea as soon as possible.
I am almost positive that I would impress more people in person and online if I elaborated a little bit more on things. It is too bad that I have this issue with patience and rush things that should be looked at and evaluated a lot more in depth than what I do. Although it comes in handy, I am motivated to work on this problem and elaborate much more on things