Ty's+Paper+1+Reflection

When it comes to writing papers, I enjoy dedicating a good while to processing my thoughts and organizing the paper in my head. After this, I begin my typing my paper with no pre-writing except what is the outline in my head. Once I start writing, I cannot stop until I am finished. If I stop, I feel as if all the thoughts I had about the paper and what comes next will be forgotten and I will have to start over. I also enjoy conducting research as I am writing the paper if I come upon a sentence that I believe deserves some support from another source. I find it difficult to write around other people or with music on, so I isolate myself in my room until I am finished with the assignment.

Some challenges that I faced during this writing assignment was distractions from my friends. They knew I was writing a paper, but were relentless about entering my room. This was difficult because I felt distracted which caused me to lose my train of thought. I do not believe this is evident in the paper however, because when I went back and reviewed it, everything seemed to flow as normal. The research may have been another tough part of this project. I did not really know what to research since the assignment was so open ended: just describe your experiences with video games and how video games are growing on your society as well as the cause of this. It was fairly simple to describe my personal experiences with video games because it is a subject that I am very passionate about.

In this type of writing, students will mainly need help if they have not had much exposure to video games. This could be problematic in describing past experiences with video games because they have relatively none. I used a website that was brand new to me, it was a perfect site for statistics, that had statistics on nearly every subject! Some advice I may give someone in starting this paper is to think about how prevalent video games are in society. They are surrounded by them everyday, while watching tv or even at a party.