Progress+Reports

Progress Report # 1

1. What progress have you made on your project and research in the past few weeks? During the past few weeks I have been very confused and fickle about what my topic for the rest of the semester was going to be. Now I feel that have not only a definite topic but also a research path that I feel confident about. At the beginning of the decision making I knew that I wanted to the hands on about dance and involving education, so I thought fitness. That did not work for me, and my topic is now the comparison between public schools and performing arts schools. It allows me do the type of hands on that I want and the type provocative issue that I want to discuss.

2. What three goals do you have to accomplish before the next progress report is due? One of my for the next project reports is having a set outline for my paper. Finishing or accomplishing all of the background research for this project. Then finally completely organizing my binder and or adding another binder for my paper.

3. What input has your topic expert and/or mentor contributed to your progress in the last week? Have you asked anyone else for advice or help? In the last week there has not been any input by my topic expert. As for my mentor he actually helped me focus my idea for the project, in the last week there has not been any communication. I have had help from a former student about my thesis statement to make it much for focused than it already was.

Progress Report # 2 1. From this progress report to the last, I have met my goals on finishing the research component that was troubling me about this project with help from my mentor. Who proposed other research topics for me to look into that would guide my paper to have more educational points. One of the goals that I did not meet for myself was getting a outline for my paper started. I feel like that is a top priority on my list because the paper is a pressure that I do not want to have deal with last minute. I feel like it did not happen because the paper became the last thing on my mind after being bogged down with the research component,

2. My top priority goal for the upcoming break is to have a completed outline for the paper and to complete the introduction for my paper.

3.I have been able to discuss my project with my mentor, but much less often then i would have liked. Some aspects again that Jason has helped my with was furthering my research with the perspective of a school because that is where he worked for a good portion of his career. One of the things he advised me to definitely do more research about the 'No Child Left Behind Act' because of result that it had on the less "educational" programs.

Progress Report #3 1. What progress have you made on your project and research in the past few weeks? The one goal that I wanted to give all of my focus to was the research paper. While my first draft was lacking in a few areas of the content and had a few organizational errors. After work shopping components of my paper, like the introduction to see how enticing the paper begins, then editing to complete the process of writing my paper.

2. What three goals do you have to accomplish before the next progress report is due?

3. What input has your topic expert and/or mentor contributed to your progress in the last week? Have you asked anyone else for advice or help? After completing the first draft of my paper and conference; Mr. Martin and I discussed the organizations problems concerning my paper. When I brought attention to my mentor that is when suggestions on how the paper about how the paper could flow better came in. What components of the paper should be left in and what others were superfluous and did not add to the paper. Jason was not the only one who had a hand in improving the research paper. I had a lot of help from editors that made sure that ideas were clearly explained and understood by my audience.

Progress Report #4