Reflection 2

Reflection 2

        I face a lot of problems through the process of writing the annotations. After the second Teacher-Student Conferences with Emma, I think there is a big problem in my paper again. Writing a research paper must face pro and con, but usually I just point out the ideas that I use to support my paper, and seldom face the opposite questions directly. I may try to answer in a blurry way, or merely skip it. I should face the problem, and think the solution of it. A fine paper may contain different ideas from pro and con, I can’t skip those queries against me. Emma finds out this problem in my paper, and this is the important defect that I need to pay attention to and correct. Another question of my paper is that I am used to use “people” to support for me, but actually, sometimes it is just my own opinion. It’s an inappropriate way to write like this. Emma says that it will make the readers think that I don’t deal with the questions in a sincere attitude.

        Though the subject in my paper will be a little bit extreme, I am trying to discuss about the independence of unmarried women. The stigma adds to them (the terms of old maid and spinster), the query that men’s superiority to women (the mother question that why father is important than her who takes care of the child all the time), and the controversy that should unmarried women have the right to have their own babies (the problem of artificial insemination, and the invisible restriction for unmarried women who want to adopt children). Because women now can get the same education as men, they don’t need to be like women in the past who depend on men all the time. They should possess the right to decide their life.


        Peers’ comments point out the arguable problem in my paper. The paper may contain fully of my opinions, however, it would be too assertive. And peers’ comments also provide a different way for me to think. For example, Rachel brings out a question in my revised annotation 3, and her question really makes me face the difficulty. On the other hand, when receiving the comments that support my opinions, I would feel very happy. Although the disapproval comments of my paper make me feel frustrated, those comments help me a lot.

Reflection 1

Reflection 1

        After doing the annotations, there are some problems showing up. The biggest problem of my paper is that there is no controversial issue. Singles can be both genders, and it’s hard to write that which age can be defined as single. I am doing about the issue of the singles, but it is too broad to be discussed. I don’t actually focus on small topic; teacher says that I am just on the surface and not pointing out the question, and there are too many things in my papers. I haven’t find out a real point to discuss yet. I’ve been confused for a long time, and thinking about the question. At that time, I am really confused because I am lost. I don’t know which way I can keep heading to. Later I try to emphasize my topic on the unmarried women rather than singles of both genders. But the problem is still there. At the meeting teacher asks me that why people want to have the marriage, and I confess that I don’t know the reason actually. First, I have no experience of getting married, and second, there may be thousands of answers why people make this decision. It is hard to discuss why a woman wants to get married or not, because it is about the personal choice. Honestly, after the meeting, I start to consider whether I need to do the whole topic again, that is, change a new one.

        In the end, I choose to put the emphasis on the unmarried women because of teacher’s advice rather than change a new one. Searching the information and the news, I find out that there is news which discusses “Do unmarried women have the right to have babies via artificial insemination?” No matter being approval or disapproval, both sides of people have their own reasons. Some people think that all the women have the right to be a mother, even though they choose to be whether married or not. But the other side of people thinks that the children may have the questions, for example, why others have fathers but they don’t? Also, they think that it will cause some influence on the children, because there is no father. Can women really take over the character of men? In the past time, people will think that becoming mother and wife is women’s duty. But now, modern women have their own sense, they may not want to be restrict by the marriage, and they think that they have the ability to take care of themselves, even their own children. As a result, I want to narrow to this topic, and keep doing my paper. In the beginning, I am just writing about the singles, but it seems no issue in it. My issue is going to be focused on the discussing that whether modern women can live without men or not.