Name of Assignment: An Old Enemy of Bananas is Returning
Subject: ENG 100
Facilitator/Teacher: Proffesor Andaluz
This assignment I was tasked with research a topic of my choice. For my topic I chose how bananas are facing the threat of extinction because of a disease called tropical race 4. I covered many parts about this topic including how the infection destroy the bananas, how the disease spread, how it could possibly be contained, and its backstory
When doing this project I used Informational Skills. I was able to research a very complex topic that I knew very little about and was able to apply that given information into a six page long essay.
From this project, I am most proud of being able to inform about the topic I chose. This topic is especially confusing because many people may not be able to understand how this infection works and how bad it could get for bananas. My essay is somewhat easy to understand to most people and I am very proud of its end result.
The most challenging part of this task was creating an entertaining informative essay. Informative writing is typically not entertaining for the reader to read, so I was trying my best to make it somewhat readable.
I developed my informational skills by using the University of Hawaii's database for peer reviewed studies. Finding information in this manner is especially challenging because many of the search results would fluctuate with the slightest change in words. It was also very troublesome to use because it was almost nothing like google. In the end, I learned how to use it and I had fun doing so.
If were able to redo this project today, I might spend more time on learning how to use the research system. This would have saved me lots of time that could have been spent writing the essay and I would have had a lot more free time to do whatever I had been doing.
This essay was really similar to the many informative essays I have done in the past. Although those essay were not very good they guided me on how to write a better informative essay.
Applying the knowledge learned from writing this informal essay will be done a lot in the future. I plan to take a lot more writing classes and I am excited to use the skills that I learned from this research essay in other writing classes.
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