What I Learned From Writing
The research paper is the most writing I've done for one assignment since High School. When I first started writing the paper, I was having trouble starting it. I had already collected sources and took notes on them but couldn't write anything cohesive. To solve this, I watched a few short videos on writing. Watching videos and thinking about writing made it much easier to write the paper.
The video that was most helpful talked about writing sentences starting with the most familiar thing and then explain the more unfamiliar parts. Writing this way makes it easier for the reader to interpret the meaning after reading it once. It also improves the flow of the paper..
Just watching the video might not have been enough to understand the writing style. The video also had little practices paragraphs that were essentially scrambled to sound more complicated. If someone wanted to practice, they just had to read the paragraph and rearrange the sentences to make it sound better.
"To power all of its molecular machinery, each cell contains anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand mitochondria. And every one of those mitochondria contains a large collection of rotary motors. With every breath you take, you set off a long series of actions and chemical reactions that make those rotary motors spin around and around in every living cell of your body like zillions of turbines, windmill vanes, and airplane propellers. These rotary motors turn out a concentrated energy food, an energy rich molecule called adenosine triphosphate, or ATP. And this ATP, more than any other molecule in the cellular inventory, makes all the rest of the machines go."
Other than practicing wording and flow, I also organized my notes and planned out what I wanted the paper to say before I wrote it. This made it easier to structure the paper also.
The video that was most helpful talked about writing sentences starting with the most familiar thing and then explain the more unfamiliar parts. Writing this way makes it easier for the reader to interpret the meaning after reading it once. It also improves the flow of the paper..
Just watching the video might not have been enough to understand the writing style. The video also had little practices paragraphs that were essentially scrambled to sound more complicated. If someone wanted to practice, they just had to read the paragraph and rearrange the sentences to make it sound better.
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| This was one of the practice paragraphs that was in the video. Below I will rearrange it to make it more cohesive. |
"To power all of its molecular machinery, each cell contains anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand mitochondria. And every one of those mitochondria contains a large collection of rotary motors. With every breath you take, you set off a long series of actions and chemical reactions that make those rotary motors spin around and around in every living cell of your body like zillions of turbines, windmill vanes, and airplane propellers. These rotary motors turn out a concentrated energy food, an energy rich molecule called adenosine triphosphate, or ATP. And this ATP, more than any other molecule in the cellular inventory, makes all the rest of the machines go."
Other than practicing wording and flow, I also organized my notes and planned out what I wanted the paper to say before I wrote it. This made it easier to structure the paper also.
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