How Am I Doing?

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I'm working on my final project for the course, a self-evaluation essay that goes with a portfolio.  And, I'm having a few problems.  I spent a lot of time over the past 7 weeks researching disability studies issues and watching Avatar (I must have seen the entire film 7 times and the scenes I used for the paper at least 30 times), which I remember doing, but the actual writing is kind of a blur.  So, I re-read what I wrote, and I'm kind of mortified by my first paper (a scene analysis with a DS approach, no outside research).  It looks like a sixth-grader wrote it.  On the other hand, I am now totally impressed by my research paper.  I gotta wonder, does everybody else in the class feel this way?

I won't know the grade until Monday, but I think that my improvement since early June has to count for something. 

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My Research Paper Grade



Janette Hughes, UOIT



I got my paper back this morning, and my grade was better than I expected.  Of course, I had fantasized about getting an A, with Dr. Toffee making a nice speech about how my paper had changed the way she thinks about everything on earth, but I knew that wasn't gonna happen.  I got a B+.  In my more reality-based moments, I thought it would be somewhere in the C+ to B- range, so I'm very pleased about it.

On the other hand, now that I read it again, I'm surprised that I didn't get a lower grade.  Just about every comment she made on the paper was right on the money, and I can't believe I didn't see it myself.  Now to get ready for the final.  Only one more journal entry to go for the A+.