Getting Down to Business

This week I seriously started putting thought into writing my feature. I have known about it for a while now, but of course I did start writing it until I absolutely had to. I have a little problem known as procrastination. I'm pretty sure that I am one of 20% of procrastinators that suffer from chronic procrastination. Since I have this problem, it is fitting that my feature is on procrastination in college students and the psychological effects that it can have.

I am interviewing students that are admitted procrastinators and I have information and pamphlets that I have taken from the Counseling Center that I am going to incorporate into my article. So I have those 2 forms of research that I am mainly using but then I also did quiet a bit of research online. I am having trouble finding information in the form of statistics though. I am thinking that this may be because everyone procrastinates so it may be hard to put any kind of importance into a percentage.

While I was writing my article I kept thinking back to Laskas and the amazing amount of research and time she spent on her article. She spent months talking with miners and spent months living their lives just to write a single article. She makes me understand how much work is needed to write quality pieces. Even though we have a word limit we need to be writing for quality and not quantity.

I have noticed one main thing that Laskas does effectively that I have not been able to do yet and that is her use of quotes. I have also had trouble putting as much description into my article. I know that the reader is supposed to be able to "see" what I see, but I haven't been able to accomplish that. I am confident that I will be able to add to and improve my article after our workshop on Friday though!