The Journal Paper

I used American Literary History to write my journal paper. I ran into a lot of issues attempting to write this paper, that I had no control over. The first issue was reading all of the articles in the journal. Some of the articles had up to 30 pages of long, technical jargon that I didn’t initially understand. I had to go back and read them. Re-reading took a long time. With my other classes and homework that I had to deal with, reading all of the articles seemed impossible.

Then, I had no idea where to start. I wanted to mention the articles that had similarities first, and then talk about how they related to each other. I found that a few of the articles talked a lot about criticism in the media, so I explain each of the articles and then made a connection. The other articles were rich in content that were unrelated to criticism, so I discussed those separately.

I absolutely hated doing the annotated bibliography. After I complained and bitched my way through it, I actually found it helpful for when I was re-writing and revising my final paper. I forgot to incorporate the page numbers in my paper. Instead of having to look up the journal again, I just referred back to my bibliography to find the page numbers of the articles. Having the annotated bib was actually a great source.