Being able to conduct research of beauty pageants was helpful because I was able to construct an annotated bibliography with sources that helped me engaged the multiple sides of my community issue. Which in this case was that parents should be aware of the harm that they are causing their children at a young age when they make their kids join a beauty pageant. My research questions where an initial step in the research process because it allowed me to take a closer, more specific look at my overall topic. After getting the research that I needed I was able to discuss how the source assisted in my research. Understanding the various positions that could be taken concerning my topic helped me decide which area seems most promising to my research. After being able to conduct an annotated bibliography I was eventually focused on a specific aspect of my topic that I could work with and I was able to learn how to quick access information contained. Learning how to conduct an annotated bibliography has been helpful because before I was not aware of what an annotated bibliography was. Now I am sure that I would be able to conduct a well written bibliography with good citations, good questions and most importantly without any plagiarism. This topic has been helpful and will be useful for the rest of my college career because now I will know how to get important information and put it in my own words correctly.
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During the process of my community problem report I was able to focus on community engagement and awareness on what was happening with beauty pageants now a days. Being able to gather information on this topic was great because I got the opportunity to become attentive to how discourse affects various communities. After gathering all the information that I had from my annotated bibliography I was able to use the report to explain the beauty pageant problem as well as its importance and impact upon the community. Being able to conduct this assignment not only helped me with getting well informed and the ways that beauty pageants can prevent several problems such as taking away childhood from young children. I also was able to familiarize with writing in the fairly formal genre of the report and I was able to practice putting information in an organized way and giving logical conclusions based on reason and evidence. Writing and getting informed about beauty pageants was something that I really enjoyed doing. Now I know that for future work I can apply the skills that I learned in this topic and become more objective to make my next community problem report brighter. Next time I will use better APA style formatting and come up with questions that will give me multiple perspectives on the topic to get a better experience and grade.