IR Reflection

First Major Assignment Reflection

Overall I think that this assignment went very well. One thing that I can say for sure is that it was very difficult to begin writing the rough draft. This assignment was nothing like any of the papers I have ever written before. I did not know how to format it or even specific details such as what tense to write it in. The major turning point in this paper for me was the conference. I found the conference to be very helpful. Before it I was not sure if I had even done the paper correctly. It was helpful to get a copy of the paper back with your notes and then sit down with you so that you could explain them. I think the time was perfect (not too long and  not too short). I actually did not have an issue with the two person conference either. It was surprisingly useful to hear you talk about two different papers. It had two very different perspectives and gave tips on things that I could add into my paper that I would not have come up with on my own.

The biggest challenge of this paper was by far the formatting for me. I was struggling to determine how I was going to lay the paper out so that it would make sense. I was not sure as to how I was going to introduce and explain the 6 different sources. Another challenge that came with this assignment was distinguishing between academic and  non-academic sources. In my field especially where writing is not the most important skill it was difficult to find a lot of good academic sources. It would have been much easier to write this paper if my field of study was something like psychology. I think In the field of marketing the most important skills are creativity and oral communication. Incorporating the writing aspect of this paper was difficult for me.