assignment 1 reflection

I learned a lot about public health while writing this paper. Not only did I find out the information about writing for my paper, but I also found out a lot of valuable information about the major in general, which is good because now I am more interested than I was before. I already had an idea for the most part about what kinds of writing was done in public health, so writing this paper supported the ideas that I had originally. I didn't know about the organization, but with the help of my interviewees and sources, I was able to find out more. One of the challenges that I had was trying to write an informational report and not make it sound like a summery paper. When I turned in my first draft I got a lot of great criticism back that helped me convert the summery into more solid information. I learned that I am not good at organization. I mean I can organize each paragraph, but I don't think I'm very good at connecting the two. I was a little confused how to make this paper 3 pages, so I felt at times I rambled on about things that weren't really too important, but I think overall readers will understand the main idea. But I like to write, I think I'm just better at writing things that allow for more opinions and ideas that come directly from me, rather than just reporting information. I like having group conferences if the circumstance had been different, but in this case I didn't really feel like I got a chance to ask question or to get help with my paper because the other person was overpowering. Also my partner had absolutely no clue what we were supposed to write, so I just sat there for most of the time listening to her figure out what to write, while we could have worked more on actually improving the papers. I would prefer for next time to do individual conferences of 15 minutes rather than the group conferences, so that way, there is plenty of time to solely focus on just the individual paper. Also the group conference was hard because we were writing about 2 completely different subjects, so it was hard to relate to each other.