Reflection

        From writing this essay i learned various different things. i learned a lot about the criminal justice papers i would be writing but i didn't learn much about writing itself other than what i've already known or already learned. touching base back on the difference of academic and scholarly was probably the most useful thing that i have learned while writing this piece.
      What i had in mind for this degrees writing strategies were almost right on what i had in mind. they do a lot of informational research papers and use APA format, and more academic then scholarly papers.
       The most challenging thing when right this paper was probably relating the interview back to the articles that i found online. but the more in depth i went into reading the article you could start to see the similarities and then it became easier to write the paper. but at first i was confused on what i was really looking for.
         my main weakness in writing this piece was my transition and my introduction. i had a lot of trouble starting off paragraphs because i was mainly just stating what i did. after you pointed that out to me i went back and changed a lot of it and you can definitely see the change. also my thesis statement was a strong as it should be and i usually have a hard time writing those for some reason. i think i did a good job on directing back to the audience that was selected which was high school student and i think i did a good job a the work cited at the end of the essay and using good quotes and quotations.
         the conference was helpful but it wasn't so much a group conference for me because my partner couldn't make it. i think i got a lot of information out of it that i went right back and could change. it made all your comments on the word document understandable and making it easier to make my writing piece better. i personally think that group conferences are better than individual conferences though because you have someone else's mistakes to look off of then just your own. some things that you might not of got in your paper you might catch in theirs to make your own paper better. and even good things in the paper that you might want to touch base on in your own.