Well, this is the last post. I got my rough draft back today from my history teacher...a day before it was due. I made drastic changes because it was way over the word limit. Today was about taking action and reflecting. There is no longer a Space Race part in my essay because its not as important as I though it was. Overall, I think the essay went great except for my slowness I need to overcome. That is all I'm refelcting and saying because I want to go to bed.
Total time spent: 3 hours
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I have not worked in the Cold War essay at all this weekend, my family had an issue going and I had to study for a chapter in chemistry I don't understand well. The deadline is approaching I think that maybe I shoul not freak out so much, in reality I think that I'm in a good spot. Basically the essay rough draft is done. All I did today was go over my stuff and make the TOC and cover page. The only bad thing abbout me that I didn't like is that i am slow to get thngs done, I take such a long time, i get in my own way sometimes.
Total time spent: 30 minutes The rough draft is done today. Yay! I am staying up kind of late to be able to get all of this done and all my other homework and projects plus track meets because otherwise, there is no time. The legacy on the United States was written up along with the conclusion. There is very little time left between today and the due date, I somehow feel like I'm kind of falling out of schedule even if I have been working on this, but its almost the end of the school year and every teacher is piling stuff on us. Every homework assignment is time consuming, I honestly feel like this action plan is time consuming as well even if just a couple of sentences. Well, I started to do one OPVL, they go by quick since I've mastered them.
Total Time spent: 2 hours I think that entries will be kind of short while I am taking action. The only thing that I think should be reported is whaty I wrote today. The only thing I was able to write was the introduction and the legacy of the Cold War on Russia, in a way all tht research paid off because I am finding it so easy to quickly write up the report, I've got a lot to say. I think I might go over the word limit.
Total Time spent: 1 hour and 45 minutes First day of planning! What a progress, well kind of. I wish that i could easily get this essay done now, but i have a lot of tests the next couple of days. Today I wrote out the outline of my essay and searched for only two things to put in the appendix. the planning is done, taking action is the next step. Its late and i need to study, goodbye!
Total Time spent: 30 minutes Well, I think that today was the last day of investigation for the report! My information for the essay is completed all printed sources. The effects on the United States were faster to find and research about in books since the outcome of the leagacy for America was mostly beneficial, incontrary to Russia after the war. There is not much to report today, progress was excellent.
Total time spent: 1 hour and 30 minutes Today I relected a bit of the research that I did yesterday and realized that I spent way too much time on the research for the legacy on Russia. I have so much information that I can write a whole essay just on the legacy that the Cold War had on Russia! I should've been more careful on time management and realizing when it was enough, then I could've spent maybe some of that five hours yesterday starting to look at the effects on the United States, which is what I did today. The flow of the project has been great, I guess. The only issue I have is that I don't realize when I have to much information and I keep on searching. I only briefly got to decide the topics that I would research for the effect on the United States and that was all.
Total time spent: 30 minutes Still in the investigating part of the project!! I am so happy because today was completely devoted to working on this and I got so much done! First of all, I got more books for the legacy on russia and I think that I am done with the legacy of the Cold war on Russia, next step will be the United States. After the research of the United States in relation to the legacy of the Cold War, I will be able to strt planning. Yes, eveything is going fine, the only thing I hope to change about me is to work faster, I feel like I take too long on the research for a single topic and that it takes me hours to look and get the essential information from a source, I have four sources right now.
Total time spent: 4 hours Continuing with the investigation process! Today was spent focused on the Soviet union and how the legacy has affected Russia. The beginning of this research was a bit hard to start off and I wasn't able to continue with a lot of things that I know now and want to research, so I hope to continue tomorrow. Wih what I have done, I think that I am on schedule with the project, its been going the way I expected it to go so far. I first start off in basic internet sources to build a base of what information I really need to look up, once I know what it is that I am looking for, then what I did today was go to the library and get printed soures because I feel that they are more reliable. I only got one book which appears to be a secondary source titled Great Dates in Russian and Soviet History. I will have to look at it tomorrow.
Total time spent: 1 hour Today I continued with the investigation part of my essay. All of today was spent looking up the effects of the Space Race on both nations. I think that in my essay there will be a part where I'll have the legacy of the Space Race, since it was something pretty big. The research that I did today made me feel satisfied because know I think that I am back on track with the schedule of this project. I can say that I have a solid base of understanding that I will expand through my research. The only difficulty part of this has been finding time to work on it, ofcourse, but these next few days will be very devoted to the research paper and I hope to get a lot of it done.
Total time spent: 1 hour and 45 minutes |
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