Reflective, Documented Essay
Purpose
The purpose of this assignment is to reflect on your research process for the Annotated Bibliography assignment and compose a well-organized essay that incorporates quotations from the sources used for the Annotated Bibliography.
Describe your research process for the AB assignment, summarizing the process, your findings, and highlights
Consider and analyze your learning process
Explain what you knew or expected about your topic before researching it.
Describe the learning process that occurred between first picking your topic and beginning to write Essay 3.
Reflect on what you learned from your research.
Discuss the relevance of your learning to you some aspect of your life.
Note: No new research is required for this essay. The sources used must be the sources used for the Annotated Bibliography assignment. New sources must be approved by the instructor.
Task
Compose a 1000-word essay that reflects on your AB research process, what you learned, and the relevance of the knowledge gained.
Essay 3 contains three basic sections, but it should be written as one, smoothly-flowing essay.
It does not need specific introductory or concluding paragraphs as Parts I and III fulfill these functions.
The essay must include at least one quotation from each AB source.
The essay must include a Works Cited page.
Part 1: What I Knew, Assumed, or Imagined
Before you began researching your topic, what did you already know about it?
Why did you select this topic? What interested you?
What did you assume you would find in your research?
What did you imagine to be true about your topic?
Part 2: The Search
After completing the research process (AB), write about your search in a narrative form (chronologically with specific details) to record and analyze the steps of the discovery process. In this section, you are telling the story of your research process.
Questions to consider:
What databases did you use? What websites did you consult?
What articles and research did you find?
What was most helpful and/or interesting?
Which sources were not as helpful and why?
How difficult and/or easy was it to search for and find research?
Do not feel obligated to tell everything. Highlight the happenings and facts you uncovered that were crucial to your hunt and contributed to your understanding of the topic.
When quoting directly from sources, you must document sources of information using citations and signal phrases.
Part 3: What I Discovered
Compare what you thought you knew, assumed, or imagined with what you actually discovered.
Provide some personal commentary and/or draw some conclusions.
Be specific, provide examples, and explain your points thoroughly.
Questions to consider:
What did you learn about your topic that you didn’t know before?
Was there anything you thought you knew or assumptions that you had about your topic that turned out not to be completely accurate?
What is some of the most interesting and/or useful information that you found?
Did you find anything that surprised you?
What has changed about your knowledge of the topic after conducting this research?
Discuss the relevance and significance of your topic.
Criteria for Success
A successful essay:
Meets the basic requirements of the assignment
Has been written by the student submitting the essay, for this class, and for this semester
Does not contain plagiarism of any kind
Follows the 3-part pattern of organization
Fully develops each of the 3 parts
Reflects on the research process instead of merely describing it
Contains at least 1 quotation from each source
Correctly integrates and documents quotations and sources
Includes a WC page as its last page
Has been carefully edited and proofread to minimize documentation, grammatical, and other editing errors
Follows MLA style and guidelines (spacing, indent, margins, etc.).
The essay will be graded with the Grading Rubric for Essays. Please familiarize yourself with this rubric before you submit your essay. Here is the condensed version of the rubric:
**My Topic was Kurdistan, I will list my sources used down below
https://doi.org/10.1080/17449057.2018.1525166
https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iix125
https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2019.1619452
