Blog 6- Project 1 Draft 1

• To produce my first draft of project one I began in the library on Sunday morning. After deciding on Saturday the pieces I would most like to use in my piece I began to think of a thesis that incorporated all parts of these documents.  I was trying to answer the question “scholars in STEM field and scholars of the humanities approach risk differently. How could a happy marriage between these approaches be accomplished?”  I found this process to be extremely difficult. It took many hours and many revisions of my thesis to finally find a concise and strong argument to talk about throughout my piece. After spending about two hours in the library attempting and finally succeeding in creating a thesis I went back to my room to finish the rest of the process.  My goal in my room was to find evidence and analyze the evidence to the best of my ability. I wanted to create strong arguments through limited amount of evidence used because we only had a 1200 word maximum. 

I found that my ideal writing process was hard to try and be followed for this draft.  Because College course load is heavy It was extremely hard to find time to get my major course work done in addition to this project. I ended up not looking at the prompts and actually thinking about what I wanted to write about until two days before the draft was due. I also took so long to try and create a claim that I got tired from being in the library for so long from my other homework and this project that I had to go to my bed and finish. Throughout the process I was extremely stressed. I knew my claim was what I somewhat wanted it to be for a rough draft but I found it hard to find the evidence that was the strongest because the word count was very limiting.  I found myself having to go back and reread all of the documents, and still I am unsure if I found the best pieces.  I think that it is good that I drafted my essay for nearly four hours because I feel like I tried to the best of my ability to make it good and I think that hearing what my peer may have to say will help me develop my ideas better.