Checking In

During my semester research project I’ve had a lot of successes and challenges.  Some successes I’ve had were finding all the types of articles I needed to write about my topic.  Another success that I had was being able to get all of my homework done that went along with my research project due to the fact that I had what was needed for my topic.  Some challenges I had was finding topics that could help me out on my research project right away, I had to dig for many of the articles that I have today.  Another challenge I had was getting the right search string down, sometimes my search string worked just find, and other times it wouldn’t even work at all.  Another challenge that I’m having with preparing for my presentation is picking out which items I want to put in my paper and what I think is important for people to hear about with my topic.  I’m doing a research paper in my English class on self-image for young girls in pageants. I’m having that same successes and challenges working with this paper as well.  There is so much information out there that it is so hard to choose what would be worth putting in the paper and what is worth leaving out of the paper.