Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving was wonderful. I spent time with my family and a few close friends! That is all that matters to me is having everyone I love with me on the holidays! I want to wish everyone luck on their papers! Please remember not to take peer reviews personally! Have a good and safe weekend!

Peer Reviews

Hello class, I hope everyone has a Happy Thanksgiving!
I hate doing peer reviews, because I am afraid of hurting people's feelings. Please, I am just doing what I have to do and trying to help you with my knowledge, what little I have. LOL I am not personally attacking anyone or their work. I don't know why it makes me feel so bad to do a peer review on someones paper. I like the feedback on my paper. It helps me to see where I can improve. It also helps me to see things I can't see or maybe I have forgotten about. LOL I believe we, as students, can learn a lot from each other through peer reviews. I know I have learned a lot from our discussion boards and I will continue to learn from them. Good luck with your papers and have another wonderful week!

Week 6

Hi everyone, another week has passed and all is good! I hope everyone is enjoying their time here at Kaplan. I have learned so much from our seminars and the discussion board is awesome. I have to say that the professors here are awesome too. They are all very positive and have given me wonderful guidance.

My paper is going to be on alcoholism and how it affects the liver and other organs as well as how it causes bodily injury due to accidents. My research is going very well. I have found so much interesting reading in the Kaplan library as well as online. I am looking forward to reading everybody's papers as we get them finished. I want to wish all good luck in writing your paper! It is a slow and tedious process to write a good paper, but we can do it!
Have a wonderful and safe week everyone!

Personal Writing Style

Hey everyone, I hope the week is treating you wonderful! I myself have somehow gotten sick with bronchitis. I am getting better though it has been a little hard to breathe. My biggest challenge with school was algebra. I had it in high school and it was so long ago I just could not bring it back into my brain. I managed to skate by with a 89.4 but it should have been an A. :) It was so frustrating not remembering any of the formulas when I know I had seen them before. But oh well other than that as far as academic challenges I have done pretty good in the rest of my classes.

My writing has always been pretty easy for me. I like to research things and learn. Writing that thesis is always a challenge to me for some reason. I think it is because I don't know exactly what I my paper is going to be about until I am finished. There are times when researching I will find something more important that I want to add to my paper. I guess sometimes that is a challenge too. Trying not to put too much info in the paper and making it too long. I like to take my notes in an organized fashion so I usually use the outline technique. If I don't use this technique my notes seem to be so unorganized and messy.

I want to wish everyone the best in getting their paper finished and getting an A! :)
Have a wonderful week guys!

References

Hello everyone, this is week four and we are still going strong. I have found our seminars to be very interesting. I have also found out things I did not know, like writing in the passive voice is acceptable.
Don't forget when typing the reference page that the references go in alphabetical order according to the author's last name. Indent all lines after the first one. I have turned in papers without doing this and lost 2 points off of a perfect paper for not having the references in alphabetical order!!!! I just wanted to remind everyone about these two important points.
We have to give credit to the author if we use any ideas from their work. It is very important to do this and to be honest in your writing so that is is original work. If someone were to use my words without citing them, I would have to confront the person and make sure that the person that received the work also knew it was originally mine.
I hope everyone has another great week!