research process

Throughout the research process I've been kind of surprised by how easy it's been to find sources the way we did in the library. I wasn't sure what sources I'd be able to find and whether or not they'd be useful in my paper, but it's been pretty easy finding enough that are relevant to my paper. I've found a lot of interesting articles and reports that fit really well within the topic of my paper (the negative effects of the standardization of the education system), and I think now that I have these sources, as well as the tools to get other quality sources, I'm more prepared for this paper than I thought I would be.

I'm still not sure about exactly how to organize everything. Like i'm not sure how to organize the facts and cases in my argument. I think it's easier writing shorter papers with only 3 parts to the argument, but here it's different when the paper has to be like 10 pages. So I'm just not sure how to order the points I make and the supporting cases and details for those points.

I still have to decide how to fill up my paper to get to 3,000 words. I've decided to add a personal narrative in the introduction that should take up a good amount of words, but I still need to figure out how to get to the 3,000 word mark without just summarizing what I've read. Again, it's one thing to balance a summary of the texts/claims and my own analysis of them in a 5-page paper, but in a 10-page paper, that will be much more difficult.