Free Write

My topic was on “Portraying the Human Minds in Film”, the film I chose was "Temple Grandin". My thesis was "Based on recent research on autism and its treatments, I will argue that the portrayal of Temple Grandin in the TV movie “Temple Grandin” gives a largely accurate picture of the way real autistics think and cope in their world”. I discovered in my research an in-depth look at autism that I didn't really understand before, having a brother with autism I didn't really want to look into the disease because I didn't want to hear how bad it can get because it hurt enough to see my brother struggle. Seeing life through a true autistics eyes and being put into there mind was amazing and I am happy with my choice of switching to this topic last minute. The database I used the most was Gale Virtual Library because it has everything you need and all information that is understandable and clear.

Final Reflection

In this course I have learned how to properly produce a college-level research paper, I am not completely perfect at it but I have a greater understanding. I learned how to cite and set up the works cited page with annotations. Advice I would give a future student who wanted to complete a successful research paper for ENG103 would be to focus on the course especially if its going to be a hybrid course. This course is something to be taken serious and in the long run you will gain so many skills that can help better you as a writer life long. I thought this course would be hard but after taking it I think it was overwhelming at first but I got into the hang of things and kept up with the work and realized the professor provided all the tools you need. I recommend to a future student of this course to use the tools given don't go searching the internet for resources that are horrible, we have data bases that can do all the work for you and are factual sources. One thing I would of done different was to not have changed my topic so late into the course but since I did I realized it helped better me now because the topic I changed to I related to as well and didn't notice how much I did till I had to look into other options for my paper after I got graded low from my first topic that was really to much for me to take on.