While writing my research question I found it difficult because of the way I wanted to pose the question. Like I already knew that I wanted to talk about immigrants and their contributions to America because they are so underrated. I just was struggling on a strong, clear way to present it. But I feel good, because I didn’t leave it a one word answer to my question. But as I was writing my essay, I found it hard to choose certain information because you know not all information you read in an article is supporting your topic or specific idea. So what I did was reread the whole article twice while highlighting important information that I knew I wanted to add for my analysis.

The only problems I had in a few of my sources was how to transfer the text I wanted to my paper without adding the entire message from the author, with this I simply took some information out and paraphrased into my own words. Then I started to just talk and add on from further in my thoughts. My audience in my essay was pretty clear based on my tone, it was to everyone the people in our country. Everyone needs to be talking about these immigrants and what they bring to our country, not just the bad. I feel like i’m learning more and more as I do my own research and just how I write. I still feel like I have more to develop to become that strong writer that I want to be. Not the one who second guesses herself and constantly rereading and taking stuff out and adding stuff in. Overall I enjoyed writing this paper, I’m excited to see what the next paper brings to my style of writing.

When I think of writing I think about writing down all my ideas and elaborating as much as possible. I know sometimes that can hurt you when your writing essays because you have to respond to a prompt or argue a text. But I just love when I get to write about topics that relate to me. Who doesn’t love to free write ? I feel like that’s when you get to see the authors viewpoint or tone. But with these new methods and strategies involved with writing that I am learning, it’s a little bit challenging. Especially for me since I’m used to writing a certain type of way, but you know as I got to college my writing style has definitely changed for the better.

So during this assignment I tried organizing everything before the draft and the final. Like I drew out a outline of all my sources and the important ideas I wanted to highlight when I type it. Additionally, I also reread and scanned my articles. I used a new strategy that I never did when writhing papers and that is widen my search span, I used to think google had everything. But when I searched in the CUNY database and the libraries for book and articles there was just something that clicked for me. While writing the draft I never really worked with stance, and genre. So I think that tripped me up. Also I felt there were times I was being repetitive, so I have to work on that. So I know In the future I will definitely be using the CUNY database for reliable sources. I feel like it was successful, Although I will be using other strategies in the future for writing papers. I may have to alter my strategy just a little because it’s all over the place, and not working efficiently as I want it to be. This essay was a great start for me learning types of writing and why we use it in our papers. I look forward to see the next essay.