**Project 365 Edition: Freshman Year in College. Starting 8/20/2011**

This blog was originally a blog devoted to a great high school class of mine, but I've decided to transform it into a Project 365 blog (a photo blog where you post a picture everyday for a year). I fell in love with the layout of crayons and cuteness (and wasn't savvy enough to redo it) that I'm just staying here! My teachers may very well still get notifications when I post, but whatever. If so, hi Bolos and O'Connor! :P Feel free to un-link yourself if you get bored/annoyed of me...

I'm not sure how keeping up with the daily posts will work for me (especially seeing my track record of weekly posts in that class) but I thought it would be a neat idea to at least get a feeling of the first year of college, of freshman year. Making new friends, new habits, and living a new life. Also apparently being corny as hell. Maybe this new life can include actually posting each day. Probably not. Let's cross our fingers for me?


Monday, April 26, 2010

And the writing begins...

So we started writing. Eek.
I initially was having a lot of trouble just getting started because I couldn't figure out a thesis. Mostly I couldn't figure out what to do about the "sex education" part of my paper. I encountered so many different opinions that I couldn't quite find substantial evidence for one side. I'm still kinda working on that...

Now as our body paragraphs, or newly termed "paragraph blocs", are starting I'm starting with the media portion of my essay and will later rearrange. However, I'm having difficulty deciding what my different paragraphs in my "bloc" are going to be about. I was originally going to separate the media into, obviously, different types of influencing media like TV or movies or music, etc. Yet I was starting to feel a trend in how they each effected the teenagers and figured maybe I could organize my paragraphs that way. But as I started to focus on it that way, the lines between the ideas were very blurred and I realized I think I still need more sources. Yay more researching!
Which creates a question of mine:
How many sources should we have in each paragraph? And can those sources be repeated within the paragraph blocs?

So that's my issue of the moment, and I hope I can start to figure it out tonight as I rewrite a bit.
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  1. Sam HApril 27, 2010 at 1:56 PM

    I would say that research definately helped me. I have quite a few sources and right now my room is just papers scattered all over the floor, but that is the best way I can organizer it (I also have an outline). Having more sources than I need is not something I have once regretted (though I may during annotations). I tried to start writing a few weeks ago, failed, and started all over after much more research and I can say that this newer version of my essay is much more eloquently supported than my first.

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