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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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