Sunday, December 9, 2007

Research paper

Uh oh. I'm sort of worried about my research paper, which we turned in on Friday. My topic was treatment of prisoners, more specifically 'In regards to Guantanamo and other terrorist prisons, is it acceptable to torture and deny rights to prisoners in order to gain information about terrorism?'

It was an interesting topic to research, and since the research portion, it seems to be popping out in the news even more. My dad mentioned an article that he had read about torture, and I've seen multiple stories in the news about the treatment of prisoners. I know that it has always been there, but I thought it funny that it took a huge paper to make me realize it.

I'm a bit worried about it though. I think that I conveyed all sides to the argument well, and my ideas were [hopefully] coherent, but as I was reading over it one last time in class, I found a typo, and there were some other formatting issues that were discovered that day. Also, something was wrong with my double spacing, so it was like, triple spacing -- HUGE. Great, so I got points off for things that really don't matter in the big picture. How frustrating.

1 comment:

Caroline said...

Im sure your research paper will be fine. That is really annoying though when you get points off for something stupid.