Final Paper Reflection

            My biggest challenge in researching and writing my proposal would have to be actually deciding on the problem and knowing what information I need to research in order to solve the problem. My problem for St. Luke’s was getting volunteers that experienced in different fields of medicine. The thing is I kept changing mine so I had to do more and more research. Eventually I knew what I wanted to do. I spent a good amount of time doing the actual research because it was hard to find the right information. I thought to myself “how do I find factual information on volunteering.” I broke it down into pieces. I looked at other medical clinic websites to see statistics about their volunteers. I ended up finding a few which helped me out big time.

            When I came to writing my proposal, it was also a little difficult. When I write a paper I like to have examples to look at which is one thing I loved about this class is that we had that. By looking at the examples I found out how to set up my introduction in the form of two paragraphs. I also found out how to set up my thesis. One thing that helped the most was the conference with Mrs. Thomas. She really gave me a good idea of how to complete my paper.

            I feel like the best element to my final proposal would have to be my introduction. I feel like I really introduced the problem well. I started with explaining what a free medical clinic is and what they do for people as well as their mission. As I continued my introduction I started to get more specific by discussing St. Luke’s Free Medical Clinic. I talked about my experience volunteering their and the problems I saw their. After that I got into my thesis. It created well developed part by part introduction.

           I feel like the weakest element of my final proposal is the conclusion. I was kind of lost when it came to the conclusion. I spent a long time trying to come up with different ways I could write one but none of it was any good. Once I got to go to my student conference, Mrs. Thomas explained really well on what to include in my conclusion. It made things a lot easier for me. Even though Mrs. Thomas helped me, I still felt my conclusion was missing something but I just couldn’t figure it out.

    I think that I could have done a few things differently. I think that with the literature review I could have probably asked more questions in class to help myself out and done some research on my own time to help. I think if I started the proposal a little earlier I could have done more research which in turn would help with proposal.

        Over all I feel like my paper was a success and ended up turning out really well. I did the research that was needed and proposed a well thought up solution. These proposals are a good idea because if anything I'm sure at least one of these papers can make a difference at these nonprofit organizations.