With the topic of vaccines, I could have gone in depth about so many other things, but I chose to stick to the most important information. Researching was hard, but not as hard as it could have been. Using videos and talks I feel is best for me because I always find myself watching random informative videos. I actually got the idea for this paper after watching a John Oliver segment about vaccinations and ended up watching one of the documentaries he used a part of in his video. I also used Ted Talks and short informative videos for basic information. One of my video sources actually included links in the description for further information, and from there I condensed it to what was really important. I used a lot of official websites like the CDC and hospital websites, and made sure that any .orgs I used were safe as well because you never know with some of them. Condensing my information took a while because a lot of my sources gave a lot of information. I ended up getting so into it that I feel like I went through all the nooks and crannies of the CDC website digging for information. I tried my best to steer away from using too much of the information from the CDC website to use other sources and get other interpretations of the data. Citing as well was something I found sort of difficult. There were so many links I put into websites to create the citation and checking to see if the title, date, etc. was accurate was very tedious. I did not think I would end up using as many sources as I did. Frankly, I thought I would have at most 10 sources. I think I ended up with double that. I’m not sure how many sources is too many sources, so i’m hoping I did not end up going way too into it. I was not prepared to do this assignment because once again, waited until the last minute to begin writing. I started it on Saturday, but did not actually start getting into the writing ‘zone’ until Sunday, and I planned my time out very poorly and rushed to finish the assignment. I underestimated how much time I would have to invest actually researching and making sure my sources were reliable. I also struggled with figuring out what information to include to make sure the essay was informative but not too informative. Unlike the last assignment, I could not get away with doing this. I planned to push out a draft by Sunday night to send email for a critiques, and I could not even do that because of my poor planning. I ended up asking my sister and best friend (both of whom are in college) to review whatever I had and I used their advice to make my paper as good as possible. For the next paper, I planned changing my topic because i’m kind of tired of researching vaccines. But I do think it would be best to stick to the same topic considering I already have a plethora of information about it. And, judging by my habits, switching my topic out would not be the best choice.