Week 15- Posting 15

I feel like I've improved on a lot of things throughout the semester. The thing that sticks out the most though is my improvement on adding detail. I used to just touch on a subject and only go very little in depth, if any at all, on the subject. I feel like me focusing more on detail has forced me to actually think about what I'm writing instead of just bullshitting my way through it. I also think my organizational skills have improved. I feel like I can make things flow better in papers now, instead of the paper being choppy.

An assignment that I feel could be reworked is the annotated bibliography assignment. I felt like a lot of the research I found during this assignment didn't really help me all that much for the mini-ethnography. My mini-ethnography focused a lot on my personal experiences, my own interviews and observations, and my own research from my subcultures website. So, I didn't really feel like doing research about clubs that are relative to my subculture helped me with my final project. Although, it did give me some different perspectives about group similar to my subculture. I think having less sources to cite would have been better, maybe 6-8 instead of 8-10, so we could focus more on our own personal research, for instance, interviews and observations. I think there was a good amount of conferences. They both feel right after the first drafts of our second and third papers were due. Although, one more conference after the first draft of our mini-ethnography was due would have been nice, considering it is 25% of our final grade. Other than that, I didn't have any problems with the course.