From completing project 1, I learned more about how to write in APA style and although I have heard about it before, I never really used it and never knew much about it until coming to college and completing this assignment. Along with this, putting the whole concept of the paper into context, I also learned more about how to format my own ideas and participate in a conversation about race from viewing many different sources. In one way, the peer editing helps and specifically for me, getting feedback about how a certain point in the essay could be strengthened is a good revision plan.
This new way of knowledge is significant because overall, it helps to become a better writer and to be able to appeal to an audience. Not just for this course, but for anything else, it will come in handy if you are a good writer. The more we write and get our thoughts down on paper, the better off we will be.
For the next time, it is important for me to continue to enhance my skills on how to write a clear thesis in order for readers to understand exactly what I am trying to say because that was my problem the first time and I had to revise it. There was no clear understanding about what I was focusing on, and there has to be. Starting a paper as well is something that I want to get better at. That has given me trouble a lot of times because I want the reader to be drawn in and want to read it. I feel like in some ways I have improved, but there is always room to be better and it starts with drawing the reader in and having a clear point to focus on.
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