Assignment Task:
This discussion forum is intended to be a place of reflection for you upon completing your research project.
My Research Topic - Veteran's Experience with Accessing Veteran Services and Their Quality
At this point in the course, you've put the work in and have thoroughly committed to being both a writer and an academic-at least, for the duration of your college career. How do those two identities work together, and how are they distinct from one another? In "Writing with Teachers: A Conversation with Peter Elbow," Elbow addresses what might be perceived as differences between being a writer and being an academic. He states that a reasonable goal for his students is to:
end up saying, 'I feel like I am a writer: I get deep satisfaction from discovering meanings by writing- figuring out what I think and feel through putting down words; I naturally to writing when I am perplexed-even when I am just sad or happy; I love to explore and communicate with others through writing; writing is an important part of my life.' Similarly, I would insist that it's a reasonable goal for my students to end up saying, 'I feel like I am an academic: reading knowledgeable books, wrestling my way through important issues with fellows, figuring out hard-questions-these activities give me deep satisfaction and they are central to my sense of who I am.' (An Insider's Guide to Academic Writing 617)
In a thorough paragraph of 100 words or more, take a moment to reflect upon your research project in its entirety.
Respond to the following questions:
- Who is your intended audience? How did you focus your writing toward that audience?
- What did you set out to achieve? Did your project achieve that goal?
- What skills did you develop through this project? What challenges did you encounter?