My Personal Dealings with writting

In the past six weeks my personal dealings with writting have been fun, exciting, challanging and very informative. It has been a while since I have had to do a research paper so, in a way I felt like it is all new to me again. I must say that I have both obtained and learned a wealth of information during my research of my topic which is The Use of Anti-AIDS drugs for newborns. It was amazing to see how many articles there were on this topic. Currently, this is one of the most devastating disease ever known to mankind and through great research work I have learned that this disease drastically has become the worst epidemic all around the world. I really do enjoy the research portion of this assignment because it teaches me how to compose a great paper by performing a thorough research on a specific topic.

I think that many ideas I have for my paper will be influential later on because I will talk about all aspects of the very controversial issue of us of anti-AIDS drugs for newborns. There are issues like the lack of health insurance that a lot of times are overlooked as a major part of the reason why pregnant women or people are affected with the disease and cannot afford the treatments or because of the lack of insurance do not obtain preventive services which also plays an import reason of why AIDS is growing in our society instead of being controlled. This will make my paper a lot more interesting.

Peer Reviews

In my opinion, I really like peer reviews for several reasons. One of the reasons would be that I really enjoy reading the feedback from my fellow peers because a lot of times they may catch grammar errors or other errors which I may be overlooking. Another reason why I enjoy peer reviews would be that my peers could provide me with great insight on how to make my research paper better or more interesting.

In one of my previous courses our professor had the class post our research paper into the discussion board to have all our peers read it and give us feedback. My experience with my fellow classmates proof reading my work has been excellent. I have even changed several information included in my paper because the feedback helped me to catch things that I kept overlooking when I performed my own proofreading. An "Ah Ha"at moment for me would be when I was searching for information for my research paper in the school library. At first, I could not find sufficient information or data for my topic. So, I learned how to navigate through the library and finally I found so many different articles that were of great help to me.

The one thing that I found shocking throughout my research would be how bad the AIDS epidemic is in Africa. After my research, I cannot believe that the epidemic is in the millions and climbing each day more and more.

Personal experience with writing

These pas six weeks has been very overwhelming for me. I have learned so much about the writing process and how to utilize the writing skills to build a great paper. There are so many neat techniques that I could utilize like, brainstorming, outline and mapping method. The topic that I chose for my research paper is The Use of Anti-AIDS drugs in newborns which I have found a wealth of information. During my research, I have found out information pertaining to how pregnant women with AIDS could receive early treatments, numerous Anti-AIDS drugs, the effects of newborns being born with AIDS, statistical data and much more. The ideas on my topic that I have will be influential later in my research because it will help me build my paper piece per piece just like a puzzle. The more information that I find on my topic it will open more opportunities and areas of focus which will also be beneficial to me. With a topic so controversial, I would also have to be careful during my research in order to make sure that the information I obtain is correct information and not only based on opinions. In the end, I hope to successfully create a great paper that readers could enjoy and be interested in reading.

My personal writing process

Writing for me could be difficult sometimes. I can honestly say, that for me the hardest part is trying to figure out what I want to write about and the introduction. One technique that I use is brainstorming which really helps me a lot. I like to jot down ideas as they come to me then I sort it all out to organize the information. I find that a lot of times I get intimidated by the introduction because the introduction would be the writer's way to lure a reader and make them interested in reading the entire research paper. I also, like to have a strong thesis statement which would include 3 main key points as this will help me build my paper. One of my academic challenges would be to become a great writer. I hope that by the end of this term I would feel confident about writing research papers. The one academic challenge for me would be to overcome writer's block. I tend to get intimidated by the thought of having to do a research paper which causes me to have writer's block.

School has drastically influenced my life at this point for so many reasons. One way that school has influenced my live is by giving me the will not to give up in what I believe I can accomplish. I was very nervous attending school after 10 years out of school however, I have never worked so hard to achieve at something like I am with school. Today, I stand very proud at myself and hope that I can accomplish the goal that I have set out for myself.

My views on Plagiarism

Based on unit 4 readings regarding plagiarism, I feel that it is crucial to cite our sources. There are many reasons why. The first reason why we should cite properly would be to give credit to the author who actually wrote the information. The second most important would be to help the reader obtain the exact location of source used within the research if the reader is interested in researching the topic further.

If I found out that someone used something that I created without giving me credit I would be very upset and I would report the incident as a fraudulent report. I would also, notify the writer to correct their mistake by apologizing and ask them to remove my portion of information utilized within their research.

In today's society there seems to be a lot of real-world plagiarism issues that include professionals. In situations like this, my opinion would be to have the professional redo or edit their work and properly cite all work that was obtained by other sources. I also, feel that these same professionals be held accountable for their errors and be fined because it means that if they ever get famous then lied their way to the top.

Internet really does blur the lines of "legally owned" because there are many websites that contain the very same information or materials and there are not always properly cited. Another good example would be that there some website out there that are made up by normal people like you and I and a lot of times these websites list information without any citations or information on where the sources where obtained.