Daily Log Blog - 2/6/18

Today in class we continued to work on our senior papers. Mr. River's began by drawing a diagram on the board of a progress bar for our senior paper. The progress bar was filled up to a section stating that we finished our literature review. The next steps included making revisions to our literature review, next was finish draft. Then it stated that we needed to revise our draft. The last thing that we needed to do was make sure that the paper was in the correct formatting. Your paper will either be MLA or APA formatting. An APA-formatted paper consists of four parts: title page, abstract, main body, and references. The abstract is basically a summary of your paper in about one hundred fifty to two hundred and fifty words. The only difference in MLA is that it does not include a title page or abstract. You will use APA if your paper has to do with social sciences: psychology, sociology, nursing, social work, criminology, and business where more timely sources are more important than older works. MLA formatting is used for humanities: literature, language, history, philosophy, the arts, and religion; classic sources are as relevant as modern works if not more so. Mr. River's stated that looking at the diagram should not paralyze us mentally. Instead look at it as a tool to progress your work and keep you going by pushing you towards the finish. This should help from making sure that we aren't freaking out next Friday as we try and cram in all the work at once. My advice would be to make sure that you plan our your work and make sure you continue to work on it gradually rather than all at once. This is a good skill to learn because in the real world you will be given deadlines and if you wait till the end you will be filled with stress and probably not do well.