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Inquiry Paper Reflection

1. How does this inquiry paper stack up against other papers youve

written in the past?

Believe it or not, Ive actually enjoyed writing this inquiry paper, for any

reasons. In the past, all the essays and papers I have ever written in school

have !een a!out an assigned topic fro the teacher. "ost of the tie, it is a

topic that !ores e to death. #lso, the paper was given a iniu word

length or iniu page length. $his really took y ind even farther off

the topic and caused e to focus strictly on eeting that required page

length or word count. $his ade everything, e%cept for ay!e the first

couple of paragraphs, !s. Ive learned to appreciate this year, writing papers

with no !s. &irst of all, this inquiry paper was a!out a su!ject that I loved. I

was a!le to finally write a!out soething that !asically consued y whole

entire life, aviation. 'o, this paper was !etter against other papers Ive

written !ecause this paper, in y opinion, was ore structured. I !elieve the

reader could find a nice, easy flow to the paper and not get !ored. Ive

learned an invalua!le skill !y knowing how to gra! the attention of the

reader and then keeping it throughout the paper. Ive used that skill here, in

this inquiry paper.

(. )hat do you think youll carry away fro this project into other

projects into the future?

I think Ill carry away the structure that Ive learned to write with. *rior to this


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+nglish class, y sentences were kind of openended, and y paper over all

would not feel coplete or not flow in a way that would interest the reader.

Ive learned how to structure y sentences and y paragraphs to help ake

the paper flow easier and help keep the readers attention. #lso, I think Ill

carry away that research never stops, which is true. Ive never really thought

a!out that until y professor !rought it up in class. )hen you pick a su!ject

and start researching and talking a!out a su!ject that you really enjoy, the

research is endless. -uring the course of this project, I think Ive delved into

a su!ject, aviation, which I thoroughly enjoy and pro!a!ly could research

until the day that I die. I also think that I going to carry away no !s. ddly

enough, I think Ill carry away the love and general appreciation for writing.

*rior to this class, I can confidently say that I hated every aspect of writing

research papers, or just essays in general. )hether it was the planning, pre

writing, research, etc., I hated it all. $here is soething a!out this year in

+nglish, ore specifically this project that has ade e appreciate writing.

Ive really enjoyed e%pressing yself and talking a!out soething I love.

/. How is your inquiry paper related to your 0ot it? How is it different?

Its su!ject relates y inquiry paper to y 0ot it. In y 0ot it essay, I

talked a!out y alternative literacy in aviation, and how y love and

appreciation of anything and everything related to aviation developed. In y

inquiry paper, the su!ject was a!out the only unsolved hijacking in #erican

history, and the an !ehind the event, -.B. 2ooper. f course, the story of


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the hijacking directly relates with the topic of aviation. $hough it is not a

pleasant su!ject to talk a!out, I was fascinated !y everything that Ive

learned. $he inquiry paper is different fro the 0ot it essay in the sense

that the inquiry paper e!odied a su!ject that was not directly related to

e. $o ela!orate on this, I was not personally affected !y the hijacking, nor

did I know all the details of the hijacking. I had to research and find out a lot

of inforation a!out the hijacking !efore I could effectively write an essay

a!out it. In y 0ot it essay, like Ive stated !efore, it was a!out y

alternative literacy of aviation. $he events and e%periences I e%pressed in

that essay were y own, and I had to do no research on the we! or in the

li!rary to coplete that essay.

3. How is your inquiry project connected to the larger thees in your life?

#ny!ody that knows e personally, or any!ody that has read y 0ot it

essay and y inquiry essay, know that y life revolves around aviation.

#fter looking !ack onto the researching and writing part of y inquiry

project, I reali4ed that I think that this was the ost tie Ive spent

researching a specific topic. I think this conclusion speaks directly to how y

inquiry project is related to the larger thees in life. )hen I was given the

opportunity to research soething that Ive enjoyed, I got really e%cited.

Halfway through the whole writing process, I found that I was devoting ore

tie on this project that Ive ever done on any project in the past. If we are

talking a!out how the su!ject of y inquiry paper, a hijacking, connects to


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the larger thees in y life, I would say !ig risk, !ig reward. "eaning, -.B.

2ooper took a huge risk when he decided he was going to hijack an airplane

and e%tort 5(66,666, which at the tie, was the largest aount of oney

ever deanded in a hijacking. $hough I dont approve of any!ody ever

hijacking an airplane, the way he planned it out and the way he e%ecuted his

plan gave hi !ig rewards. +ven though we dont know if he survived the

jup or not, I think knowing that you just ripped off the governent and got

away fro this is a pretty !ig reward. In y life, I take huge risks everyday,

knowing that the result could !e very good or very !ad. However, when I

take that huge risk and I get a huge reward, it is the greatest feeling in the

world.

7. How would you descri!e yourself as a writer? How does it help or hurt

your writing process?

I would descri!e yself as a reflective writer, eaning, I think I do !etter

when I reflect on certain topics or ideas. ver the course of this seester

though, I honestly think Ive developed into a research writer of sorts. I can

appreciate that the word 8research9 was !anned fro the classroo,

!ecause I know when the word 8research9 is attached with an essay, it

involves a lot of !s. I think e !eing a research writer helps y writing

process. By aking sure that I gather all of the correct facts and that there is

no false stateents akes y writing ore factual. $he downfall of this

though is just aking sure there is not plagiaris and that I dont take any


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credit for any inforation that is not ine. Heck, if I accidently forgot to cite

a quote or soething, I just plagiari4ed. I guess plagiaris is not always

done on purpose.

:. How are you going to carry on without a writing class in your life?

I !elieve its going to !e quite siple, just live every day and forget a!out

writing essays. It sounds sipler than it see. $hough I wish I could just live

to forget, I think Ive developed and appreciated the necessary skills to

survive in a world where that one (76word paragraph selling yourself to an

eployer can change your life. I know in the workplace, there are going to

!e plenty of ties when I have to research and;or write a paper for a !oss. I

think to effectively carry on and to effectively keep the skills that Ive

learned throughout the course of this year, I need to actively write in a

journal or soething< just do soe reflective writing.

=. )e took a long tie writing this essay, fro idea to copletion, and

took any steps along the way. )hat steps along the way >drafts, in

class 8gaes9 or !rainstoring, li!rary and coputer visits did you

find ost useful in your copleting the project?

&or soe reason, the step that helped e the ost was the li!rary and

coputer visits. I really enjoyed this !ecause I was surprised as to how uch

inforation I found out a!out -.B. 2ooper. I had so any sources with so

any perspectives, it really helped e construct a thorough essay.


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