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. 

Three top Subjects to write about

The most interesting topic I can think to write about would be Doulas across the world.  Not many people know what a doula is, so  I feel like writing a paper on what a doula is, and all about it, would be interesting to many people.  Another topic I think would be interesting for others to read about is the difference between Australia and America.  I have been to Australia twice before, for an entire month, and as I was there I was constantly seeing differences between where I live, and there.  The last topic I can think to write about that sparks my interest is the different ways parents teach their children as they're growing up.  In psychology I learned about different parenting methods used for children, and the outcomes of each parents kid when they grow up.  I find all three of these really interesting, and I feel like every single one I could come up with a lot of information to write about.