Monday, December 4, 2017

Psych the Movie



Back in October, in my blog post titled Truth I wrote about how I am never going to get over Psych being removed off of Netflix. It's that important to me. The only bit of hope I've had in this dark, Psychless time is "Psych: The Movie" which airs this Thursday, December 7. Of course it has to air the night before the last day of classes when I have an assignment due in every class. Hopefully, I can use it as motivation to finish my work early. If I can't get everything done, it'll be a reward for finishing out the semester. Either way, it's giving me something to look forward to.

Friday, December 1, 2017

Exploratory Writing Struggles

I did not expect to struggle as much as I have with the exploratory paper. Part of my problem has been keeping my bias at bay. When I picked bilingual education, I was ready to find somewhat solid research that was straightforward. Instead, I started finding articles and journals that were relatively biased in their language and not objective.
Another problem I had was that I have become so used to writing with a thesis and finding support for my own argument. With this project, I had to restrain myself from using those key words that would give me just the information I wanted.
The problem that has ended up being the greatest for me is the narrative glue which I thought I wouldn't have trouble with. That's partly because I've had to work hard to keep my bias away. I am starting to see where I can work in my own voice more which should really improve the choppy flow that my paper has now.