WEEK 10: LITERATURE REVIEW
1. What patterns did you find in the development, or enhancement, of your research skills?
I am familiar with writing research papers, annotated bibliographies, essays, and any other kind of writing styles such as letters and emails, but I have never written a literature review and it was hard.I am used to being allowed to be biased and include my opinion in order to help the paper flow and add backup to the information. For the literature review, you are not allowed to add any opinion and that was the challenge. I am familiar with doing research for papers, and before this assignment I knew the difference between a scholarly article and a blog post, but my priority was never to find different sources in order to have variety. for this assignment, i had to force myself to get out of my comfort zone and find different types of books, articles, credible websites, and even different types of topics within a topic. After writing this lit review, I can see now how beneficial it is to have a variety of sources with different opinions in order to make the information credible and if needed, argumentative.
I also feel like I enhanced the way I write a paper, because I always try to make it good in order to complete all of the requirements and give a little extra, but for this assignment, since there were many guidelines that kept me in track of what i needed and didn’t need to do, I feel like I was more objective in to what kind of information was helpful and I became more efficient in my wording choice.
[Me and @andreaseanez writing out lit reviews in the UTEP library]
2. Did your assessment/evaluation of the sources change? If so, how?
My assessment/evaluation of my sources changed at some extent. I feel like my knowledge about research came in handy but I feel like I also learned to used other sources I was familiar with but had never put into practice, such as a primary source. this assignment gave me an opportunity to experiment on the type of sources I use. As I was writing my paper and looking at the sources i had, some I kept and some I kept changing because I would notice that they were not useful.
But for future assignments, now I know that research takes time and that I may not find what i need right away, but that’s OK but i eventually will.
3. Do you think the methodology described in questions 1 and 2 work? Yes/No. Explain.
I feel like the methodology explained in the previous questions worked for this assignment and may work for some future ones. Every assignment has its own guidelines and should have its own methodology, but i feel like the methods above can be applied to almost any kind of writing assignment. the quality of your sources are the base of your paper, so the better the are, the better your essay will be.
4.Select one of the questions listed and explain the rhetorical choices you made towards answering the question.
Fpr question one, I used a mix of pathos and logos, because I wanted to write about my experience but also include information that can be helpful to me and to others. I feel like I wrote exactly what was on my mind but I included some things that can maybe help someone else.
After this assignment, I feel accomplished because I challenged myself and I managed to succeed!!!
