Final Journal

Throughout the semester, I was able to accomplish a lot of research within this course because of the general interest in discovery of the role of animals in literature.  I was able to learn how to research properly in finding primary resources within databases.  The library workshops helped me find archives and gave me more time to search within the archives for relevant primary resources.  However, because of my general interest within the course, I was able to not procrastinate for this essay all too much.  There were still in the moment distractions that plagued my essay-writing, like watching TV, and the fact of other essays bearing down upon me.  Time allocation is still a problem, and it is not any closer to being solved, as I am writing this just before I begin my next essay.  My next step is to create a better scheduling system to create a healthy balance of work, diversion and sleep.  This will allow a better product and more enjoyment within each of the courses within my next semester.

The presence of the blog opened an unknown medium for me, as it produced a way for ideas to come forward.  The Blog is a free medium to create and build ideas based on the texts of the course.  The difficulty in finding some of these texts, it was gratifying to read the discovered literature.  The blog was also an interesting practice of creativity within the form, as the blog allowed us to put into practice what an essay would not allow us to do.  In closing, it was an interesting experience that highlighted this course, as it was a constant practice for me.  For the unique course topic and especially for one that relies on 18^th Century text, the portfolio was a good means to organize the texts.