Revision Piece

For my revision piece I chose a piece of writing about how little moments can change your life. I chose this piece because it gave me a chance to write about something I know. I chose to write about how I met my best friend. We have only spent two weeks together in person. I roomed with her for a week my junior year at a camp at CMU and she quickly became my best friend. In my paper I told the story of little things that happened over that week, then about how we stayed in touch throughout the year and roomed together my senior year at the same camp. This paper was very easy to write because it wasn't something I had to research or really think about, it was just something I knew and it started out as a stream of consciousness piece and then I refined it to make it more readable. I think it turned out very well.

Family & Writing

I have been writing since I was very young. It is something that has always been of interest to me. My dad absolutely loves it when I write. In fact, he has been so deprived of my writing lately that he has resorted to reading my blogs. He is not much of a writer himself but he does love to read. He reads more then I do most of the time, which is quite impressive actually. He used to tell my sister and I that we should publish childrens books for our side jobs. She is the artist in the family and loves to draw, though she has never caught onto the whole writing craze that I enjoy. She has been known to dabble in reading though on occasion. My mother has always encouraged both of us, though she has never really been into either drawing, writing, or reading. She supports both of our talents and on occasion proofreads some of my work.

Reflection

I think overall my short project went very well. I got all of the information I wanted into it and managed to get it to come across the way I wanted; informative but not research-like. The Q and A magazine article format went over nicely also. I think my subject of hiccups was quite difficult to portray any other way, unless I wanted a forty-five minute long movie on random people hiccuping, this didn't seem like a good idea to me.

Short Project

I am currently working on a short project based off of my research essay. I decided for my project to do a magazine Q and A article. This seemed to be the best way to go because the hiccups are a very common thing but not many people know that much about them and so while sitting in a waiting room flipping through the articles some people may be compelled to learn just a little bit more about them. Also, magazine articles are often found online so people who use a search engine to look up hiccups could easily find the information. This article will have standard Q and A format, will be understandable for the average person, and easily accessible.

Research Paper

My research essay turned out interestingly to say the least. I think I am most proud of the fact that I managed to get an eight page paper out of commonalities of various hiccup remedies. It was such an abstract topic but I chose it because of the challenge it gave me and am very excited that I did it. I think that I could have worked on my methods section a little better but I still am quite proud of that section too. This essay taught me a lot about my writing style; although I am not a natural research paper writer I can do it if I set my mind to it.