This blog post will go over what my notes mean and how I used them as well as what I can do to strengthen my research project. First I’ll go over my notes and then at the end I’ll talk about my plans for the research project and where I went wrong and how I’ll fix them.
The first thing that I want to reflect on is the MLA paper that I started writing. I thought I was going to write an MLA paper for this project because it seemed the easiest and least time consuming. However, when I started writing it, the ideas I had were flawed and beyond repair. I went through a lot of writing and rewriting and ended up with something that I really didn’t like. I thought about how I could improve my MLA paper, but I kept returning to this idea that I had much before. I wanted to try to write a persuasive piece in the style of The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. I really liked the idea of short stories, which were too long so I made them allegories, to convey a message. I researched a lot of folklore and snagged ideas from here and there and mixed them in with my own to create my research project. I didn’t do all of the work on the MLA paper for nothing though. I reused some of the ideas from the notes I had and built stories from them. The second story I wrote (The Son) was heavily influenced by the need to learn about emotion when they experience it. Your brain remembers emotion very well, even if it isn't with clarity. Through my research, I learned of the importance of teaching your son about emotion early. Many of the ideas I had with the MLA paper carried over into the stories. When I started writing the allegories, I wrote them down as I saw them happening in my head. I knew I wanted one to be about parents and one to be about friends because that is where you learn the most from growing as a boy. I also added one about a mentor because I learned of their importance as well. I basically just splashed down all of the ideas I had without really caring about setting. I just wanted to make sure that the message i was trying to convey was at the heart of the allegory. As I started writing the actual allegories, the messages sort of evolved on their own to fit into the allegory and my research better. I was pretty unhappy with how my research project came out for one main reason. I did not have a lot of time to revise it which really screwed it over, and it came off as very confusing, admittedly even to me. If I had the chance to step back and reexamine my project I think it would have turned out much much better. I plan on adding explanations for everything and also plan on including some quotes and other such things that reinforce my position.
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