One of the most important assignments in a high school student’s career is the Senior Paper. This paper can decide how a student will end their senior year. Obviously, this puts a lot of stress on the student and can make this paper seem like the hardest assignment they have ever had. It is very important, therefore, for a teacher to have feedback from students on how they could make this process simpler. From personal experience, I hope to give my opinions on how well the process was handled for my class and how to improve this process for future classes.
Personally, I found that Noodle Tools was an incredibly helpful tool while I was creating my senior paper. After an initial learning curve, I was able to easily input sources and create notecards using Noodle Tools. Having the due dates for notecards also helped me constantly add to my research for my paper. Some students prefer physical sources of note taking, such as paper notes. However, I found that Noodle Tools was much more convenient and time saving than handwritten notes. In fact, I believe the easiest part of the senior paper was creating a work-cited page using noodle tools. For the most part, I simply had to find the APA citing in the database provided by Lewis and Clark College…
Research, in particular, was difficult while using the Lewis and Clark database. The database was often confusing and hard to navigate. The database was probably the hardest part of the senior paper because no matter what search criteria you used, you often had to sift through a lot of data just to get to something usable. If I had to give one suggestion for a change in curriculum, I would suggest a training period for students to learn how to use the database properly. This paper did teach me how to look for sources in unlikely ways, however. This paper also taught me to look for outside help, in this case the Lewis and Clark paper checking…
