It feels great to finally be done with Junior Theme! Overall it really served as an important learning process for me in junior year. It was challenging to simultaneously work on different parts of the paper. I always struggle putting my thoughts on paper and for me that was probably one of the most difficult things about junior theme. It took a very long time, but eventually I had a rough, and I mean rough, draft. During the editing process I additionally struggled to determine the best way to organize my paper. I moved around paragraphs, eliminated some pieces of information, and constructed new paragraphs in order to complete my final draft. This was certainly a long process for me and after all the hard work I put into it I was glad to at last hand it in.
As I researched the reasons for declining newspaper circulation, I found information in one of my sources about the way democracy in America is affected by declining newspaper circulation. For the United States to have an effective democracy, Americans must be well-informed about news within our country. Cutting costs at newspapers is certainly changing the amount of information Americans receive about the country. So, I definitely have background knowledge about the things James Fallows will talk about during American Studies Day!
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I am glad to be done with the Junior Theme as well! I do think that this paper will be helpful for our future, though, because in college we will write tons of research papers. It is interesting that you will understand much of what James Fallows will discuss during his speech.
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