Final project thoughts: Week 7
I finished the second draft of my paper, and I’m having some mixed feelings about it. I tightened up the first half, and I’m feeling pretty solid on that for the most part. For the second draft I wrote the second half under the technique of writing the personal/creative narrative stuff first, and then seeing where the research/connection to APIA pop culture fit in. Unfortunately, it didn’t really click with where I thought my research could be implemented, so I just put a small placeholder paragraph with some important points on the musician I was wanting to make connections to. For the final draft, that’ll be the big challenge for me, as I’m having a hard time seeing how my personal narrative and the research I’ve done could fit together. I don’t think it’s a total lost cause, I’ll just have to be as *~creative~* as I possibly can be.
Other than that, I’ll have to spend some time tightening up how the paper flows so that my overall message isn’t murky. It’s one thing for it to make sense to me, but I want to be as clear as possible for whoever might read the final product (even if it’s just Kris). I’ve been kind of weary about the format I’ve chosen to define home, because it’s not as cut and dry as “it is this physical location”. Although, that’s ostensibly what my paper is supposed to be about. It’s more of the experiences I had there that are linked to finding things to do, which is pretty necessary if you live anywhere in the Midwest and don’t want to go nuts. So it’s more of sub-homes within this larger physical home. I don’t know. That’s the only way this assignment could have made sense to me, I guess.