Starting this research paper, I was a little freaked out. I began searching for topic on Magnolia, a site I have never used before, and I could not find anything. My heart began to beat hard as I browsed through the website. Finally, after minutes of searching, I found that I wanted to talk about school shootings. After this discovery, I then needed to decide what school shootings to talk about, and if I was going to do a cause and effect essay or a compare and contrast essay. At first I was dead set on writing a cause and effect essay because that was the easy way out for me. When I realized I did not have the material I needed for this type of essay, I had no choice but to do a compare and contrast essay. The hardest part for me was finding …show more content…
I knew this writing thing was going to be pretty easy on me. I sat down with Mrs. Garth and she helped me build my rubric. I am not even going to lie, I got a little nervous. I realized that she was expecting me to write ten to eleven paragraphs. Did I have enough information? How am I going to do this many paragraphs? On top of that, I was then having to face the most difficult part, this essay had to be at least 1,200 words. The first essay we had to write only had to be 700 words. It was very easy to just type 700 words, but 1,200? How in the world could I have that much to say? I knew I had to buckle down now; this research paper was not a joke.
Another struggle not only did I face, but the whole class faced the struggle of not having a set place we could go for Comp one. First we started out in the library, we got kicked out. Then we tried the computer lab, but you guessed it, it was booked up. We were stuck in the old library with no computers, no way of accessing Magnolia, and no way of typing this research paper. My classmates came up with the idea to bring our own laptops. Well, not everyone has their own, so we decided to borrow the school’s Chromebooks. We had a plan, we just might make this