Research paper

From my research writing assignment I have learned different things from the actual research collected and through the process of writing. From the information I have collected, I found that several college students procrastinate because they either do not like writing or they feel they write better under pressure or in a time constraint. I found myself procrastinating in my research essay about procrastination because I was not sure how exactly I wanted to write it, which a point was made by a couple of teachers.  Through the actual production of the paper, I became more familiar with research and finding articles. For the first time a used a citation from one article to find a different article I found very useful.  While in the process of writing the essay, I learned more about formal writing. It is important so that the audience, your readers will trust what you as the writer, have to say.  As I was looking through my results I wished I would have asked more and different questions than I had. I could have prevented this by thinking about my topic and where I wanted to take my research earlier. Another thing that could have done is look up articles on the topic I was interested in and then find the specific question I was looking for. There were several opening within the different articles about waiting until the last minute with writing, also known as procrastination. I wish I would have posted my survey earlier or worked to get more responses to have better results. Only 18 college students out of millions is nothing to show what is actually going on with college students. Also, I really only received information from freshman when I wanted to receive information from all levels. I was hoping to be able to see a difference between different years of college. I was able to see a difference between professors and students though.  Lastly, in the assignment it more important than just stating the facts and the obvious. I was forced to think beneath just the results and make a conclusion.

 

 

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