Week 2 Reflection

For my journal reflections I will be using the Peter Pappas's The Reflective Student: A Taxonomy of Reflection.

Remembering
Week 2 was a very busy week. I found myself having to read quicker through my peer-review articles in order to meet the deadlines.

Understanding
By having 60 annotated bibliographies I have found a lot of information and sub topics about my research topic than I have found in past courses that only required 20 peer-review articles. This will strengthen my literature review.

Application
Knowing how to use specific keywords, how to search databases, and find peer-review articles is a critical skill that I will use for my dissertation.

Analysis
This week I did my best to start early on my annotated bibliographies, however, kept finding myself wanting to dig more into my topic when I simply needed to get the remaining 40 done. I have met all of the deadlines (so far) so that's good!
 
Evaluation
Well tomorrow is Sunday and I will have a full day of work to finish my annotated bibliographies. I need to block off time each day moving forward to write at least 200 words for my literature review.

Creation
I plan to start this coming Monday on my outline. There is not a second to waste and I hope I can balance my jobs and writing =)

Personal Insights
I am wondering how many articles I can use on my dissertation that are longer than 10 years old? I'd of course only use older articles that focus on the theory, key research, and results. How many sub topics should be in my literature review for my dissertation? I have started to look at outline templates and am hoping to hit the ground running this coming Monday. On Sunday I was able to access to the Outline section in Moodle and will use the example template as well as my APA textbook.



Pappas, P. (2010, January 5). The Reflective Student: A Taxonomy of Reflection (Part 2). Retrieved from http://www.peterpappas.com/2010/01/reflective-student-taxonomy-reflection-.html