My essay is going well, honestly the only thing I really need to do at the moment is finish my negatives aspect (adding in medical stats and whatnot), finish my conclusion and draft - another 250 words then I'm done. It's flowing really easily and the information I need is readily at hand. I'm following the plan I set up last time and it's working for me so I see no need to alter it or change directions. I have however found that the positives of my topic seem to outweigh the negatives - although that has just come from one book so I do need to collaberate the information I have now with more recent studies. In saying that though I have a fair idea of where to look for this info.
But I was rather surprised with the medical facts I did find on the positives. The stats I did find were unexpected but it was interesting to note how video games were being used to help sick kids and even the military. I think I was so facinated by the posisitive aspect of this topic that I wrote more on it than I meant to lol.
The information I have found for the negatives seem to be saying all the same thing, and while that's a good thing I need to find more stats and it would be nice if I could find more medical journals on the topic. It's a minor issue but one I intend to fix when I take a long visit to the Library.
I'm not really 'organising' my essay continually on paper like a continually updating plan. I just write a very basic plan that allocates how many words I can apply to each subtopic and what order they are to go in, write a basic intro, do a skeletal outline of my essay ideas without references, then I go through and find facts to back up what I've said and add those in (I generally have to change my original ideas when I do this), I write my conclusion and then I go through and draft everything - this sometimes involves re-writing entire paragraphs. It works, I know how many words I can spend on what and I can focus on one aspect at a time without getting confused and going off topic.
I do this for every essay I write and so far it hasn't let me down.
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- ~*Cass*~
- This is an online research journal/blog for my Uni class - I actually don't like blogging, at all, I can't understand why anyone would care what someone else is doing ^_^; so if you're reading this I officially don't understand you, unless you're my tutor, in that case - HI! ^_^
