Day in the Library

What a day! Three hours in the library sitting in the same seat is a long, long time. Luckily I was able to keep the focus going for the whole time which really benefited me. I was able to complete many note cards and am quickly approaching the end of them. With only a few more sources to go I will use the weekend to fully complete them. I really like how the note cards are able to be put into piles because it's a great way of organization. Overall the 3 hours went well and was defiantly great to have this large block of time to just work. Being able to work straight without interruptions really helped vision in my head how my essay was coming together and what note cards went together and ones that didn't.

Notecards

Today was dedicated to note cards. I was able to complete note cards for one of my sources and still have many sources to complete. As I continue to knock out each note card I'm quickly noticing how fast 20 note cards is going to take to reach. I'm pretty sure that i will exceed 20 which will only benefit my essay in the long run I hope. Tomorrow in the library I will continue knock them out and have them done for Tuesday. Looking forward to the 3 hours tomorrow to get a lot of work done.

Outline and Notecards

Today was a productive day with the start of what is hoped to be a strong outline. I will continue to change and tweak my outline throughout the writing process but for now I have established the base of my essay. I also was able to complete my first notecard. Unfortunately my survey will not be published because of browzer issues but it's all good because I feel I have enough information already.

Making a Survey

Today was the chance I had to start the creation of my survey. I came up with several questions relating to my topic. I still have some work to do on it but hope to launch it to the public in a couple days after I complete it. I hope this survey conducts enough research for my topic. Over break I will continue research on the computer as well as conduct more questions for my survey. As I gather more research my outline will begin to form

Day of Organization

Today was a day of organization in creating my noodle tools account and citing my sources. So far I have 5 articles related to my topic that I feel will help me write my paper. Today instead of researching I decided to give credit to the authors of my articles. They deserve the proper recognition for providing these articles. Tomorrow I hope to continue researching further articles and prepare myself to write a great proposal for change paper.

Day #3

Today involed some good research with reading articles from our local Daily Gazette. The one article that stood out was an article on Steinmetz and how the students are progressing at a higher rate due to the vocational program. The research will continue to happen and maybe I will start generating surveys on what the students find to be distractions. Im becoming more interested to see how other states and schools deal with distracting and distruptive students.

Researching Time

Today was an interesting day of research for my topic of distracting students. It has been hard to find detailed articles about alternative schools or plans for distracting students. However, I have been finding out a lot on what distracts students in schools which is very helpful. Cell phones and computer use have been the main articles that I have read. I only found one article on how schools deal with expelled students. Hopefully the research will pick up with more articles on my topic.

Day #1

My topic is distracting students in the high school.

My main focus is researching ways to remove the distracting students from the students that actually care. Now the controversy is what is the definition of a distracting student because my opinion may be different than someone else's. I need to find out what students feel are distracting things.