1. My goal was to find a common theme, which I found was creativity in the classroom. I chose the 3 articles that I thought were the most commonly linked. I think I did a good job connecting the themes on multiple levels from actually inside the classroom to experimental testing.
2. It took me about 3 hours to write this paper with multiple breaks in between. I found the prompt to be more difficult then I expected and it made me go back and reread a lot of the articles. I used a lot of the things people said in whole group discussion to develop my paper. This helped a lot.
3. My peers greatly helped me with the flow of my paper and added excellent input. I used everything they said, and incorporated it into my paper. I like the way we used this workshop and I wish we could do it for other classes.
4. I did not show my paper to anyone else. Only the people in my inquiry group. The whole group helped me come up with some of the ideas before I wrote the paper.
5. I learned that everyone is different in their writing styles when listening to the other classmates read theirs. I learned that I take a straight forward and literal approach when others will use symbolism and other methods.
6. I think the prompt was much more difficult to interpret once I looked at it more carefully. I also saw this when reading other students papers. None of us took quite the same approach. I thought the easiest part was that we were given the sources, so we didn't have to go find them like we would have to for a research paper. I think the whole paper was a risk. I was not to sure where to take it in the beginning but it eventually came together.
7. I'm proud of the theme I chose to use in the paper. I feel it was a theme that has been common in class since the beginning when we first started talking about education.
8. I think I need to work on the papers introduction and some of the mechanics I use within. These can really spice up the paper and hook the reader. The mechanics are what separate a good paper from a bad paper in most instances. I would like to improve in this but it is a skill learned with practice and repetition. I used the comments given to me by my classmates to improve the mechanics and introduction. I included a thesis in the introduction and I revised multiple sentences.
9. I read and reread the articles until I saw a common theme. All of my brainstorming came from the articles. I sat in my room until something popped up that I could write about.
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