VI. Reflection
Since the beginning of the semester and figuring out how I was going to write about this topic and how I was going to come about it was harder than I thought. I knew I wanted to write about the ongoing controversies about the Oscars but I didn’t know how to come about it until the new rule that the Oscars came out with about the requirements for submitting a film to be nominated for Best Picture. It talked about being more diverse in cast and crew and then I remembered immediately about #OscarsSoWhite a few years back. So I had my sources in check and all I needed was the main purpose of the paper as a whole.
I first wanted to write about what nonwhite actors and POC actors thought about the lack of diversity in Hollywood and as I researched deeper on the internet, all my sources lead to the Oscars and how they are a part of the racism that happens in Hollywood. From then on I got deeply invested because I religiously watch the Oscars and to learn about these views and opinions about the Oscars was fascinating.
A challenge for me was trying to find articles for the opposing side of the argument which was the denials of oscar racism because a majority of the articles were about the racism that occurred in the Oscars and so not a lot of people were openly denying the racism. Along with that, I had a hard time staying neutral within the whole Oscars not being racist because all those articles were going around the idea that the Oscars were racist and just blamed Hollywood as a whole, which isn’t wrong but they weren’t admitting the Oscars had racist attributes.
In terms of drafting my work, I would honestly just type everything all out and review it really quickly and submit it because I wanted to be done with it. Then when my peers reviewed it they would correct me on things I should add and I was fully aware because when I write I also feel like I’m on a time crunch for some reason and feel like I don’t have enough time to write everything I need to write, that’s why I leave a few important details out and that isn’t necessarily good. So later, as I was revising my blogs I actually took the time to fully go through every blog and make it better.
When I first came into this class I have never spread out my thoughts into sections like a blog before and using casual language to appeal more to the audience. So as I got comfortable writing casually it was really hard to transition into a more formal format for my final research essay. Therefore I had to slow down more and take my time thoroughly so I didn’t randomly go into this casual tangent in my writing.
Regardless, when I came into this class I came with the mentality of what I learned in my English class last semester on how I shouldn’t be fixated on writing a five-paragraph essay because my high school teachers told me to and that I should break out of that habit. And after taking this class I feel like I have now gotten better in my writing in terms of how to write in a casual manner and in a more formal tone and that is something that I should’ve known before, but now I know for my future papers.
On the other hand here is the link to my research paper.
