Jannah Nassar

IR I/10 GT/Period 2
12/11/19
Bi-Weekly Journal for the Week of 12/9-12/13

Objective

● Continue contacting with my advisor.

● Ask my advisor for more articles.
● Find new articles to read and annotate.
● Continue editing my thesis
● Work on my chart outline
● Organize all my information and begin drafting a doc with everything I know.
● I will continue annotations and organizing my citations in Zotero.

Journal

Within the past two weeks, I was able to accomplish quite a bit. I learned a great deal about my

strengths and some weaknesses. I completed my thesis board preparation and presented my thesis

boards. The thesis board presentation were very helpful in that I was able to get the help and advice

of the leadership students at my table along with my peers. The leadership students helped me think

of new ways to look into my topic and I found them to be more interesting. I was able to develop my

thesis, even if it's still a working progress, and complete my first draft outline and rough draft outline.

Not only were thesis boards beneficial to me, but they were also helpful to other IR 1 kids at my table

as we could help each other out and use different perspectives to think of something. Some goals that

I have for the upcoming weeks are to narrow my topic and focus more on bettering my thesis. I want

to continue working on my chart outline and using this to start a rough paragraph for each section to

allow me to gather my thoughts. Lastly, I want to continue reading new articles and find more

information to further my research.

Why
I enrolled in Independent Research because I want to improve my writing and my researching skills.

I am hoping to better prepare myself for future colleges and workplaces. Wanting experience with

advisors and better my communication between adults, this is course is the best fit for me. This

course has already provided me with several skills such as organization, formatting, and annotating

skills.