#25 My topic

I think I did a good job with providing enough information on my topic.  I have grown up around "doula talk" for more than half my life, so I already knew a lot about it.  I am definitely happy that I chose Doulas as my topic because there is so much to know about it, and it was interesting getting more elaborate information. 

ROUGH DRAFT WOES

Even though my topic for my paper (Doulas) has a lot of information on it, I found that I had to try and keep from repeating myself.  The information about Doulas has a wide variety from what they do to help a woman giving birth, all the way to ways a Doula benefits.  All of the information intertwine in a way and coinside with eachother so for me to write a five page rough draft was a bit difficult.  For the actual paper I am just going to have to further search and go farther into detail about everything. 

Websites to help with Grammar Issues

1. http://www2.elc.polyu.edu.hk/CILL/grammar.htm

2. http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/index2.htm

3. http://writing2.richmond.edu/writing/wweb/gramconf.html

Thesis statement of my paper

A doula is an uncommon work across the world that guides mothers during labor when they are in their most time of need.

The most important things I have learned in this class

Seeing as the papers we have to write are pretty long, I have learned not to stress myself out by putting homework off until the last minute.  I have a difficult time with procrastination, but I learned that if I just work on the homework a little bit every day, it will cause me less frustration and stress having to jam everything in at the last moment.  If I don't procrastinate I learned that I get better grades because I have more time to focus my attention on perfecting my work instead of just doing it to get it done. 

Worst Grammar Issues

I tend to have a difficult time with knowing where to use ;'s as well as when to use a comma after certain words. 

Blog #5 The Three P's

Patchwriting- Considered plagiarism unless it is all directly quoted (with quotation marks, indents, italics) Appropriate references is supposed to be used also.

Paraphrasing- Doing your own work, using your own wording.
Plagerism- Taking someone else's work and calling it your own, without giving them the credit of writing it themselves.