Exercise 4.3

For this exercise, we need to write three different beginnings to our research paper.

Step 1:
#1:
Journaling: it is something many people would not consider doing. People think it is for those who love to write and that it really does not do a person any good to journal: these are the excuses that pop up the most. A few weeks ago someone encouraged me to start journaling my thoughts because they knew I was really struggling with something big in my life. I did not think it would help any because I thought it was just for people who loved to write. I assumed it was not going to be beneficial but I decided to go ahead and give it a try. I am so thankful that I did. I started to feel different about the situations I was writing about and people were seeing a difference in me as well with my attitude. I was able to get all my thoughts out instead of keeping them bottled up or sharing them with everyone around me.

#2:
If you were going through something and you wanted all the help you could get, would you take it? Therapists and Psychologists want to help their patients in every way possible. After meeting with their clients more than once, they start to see how they react to certain things and how their thought process is. This allows them to deal with all of their patients differently and more individually. With all of their patients, though, they encourage them to journal as well as anything else they tell them to do. Journaling helps people progress more when healing with something. It allows people to fully get their thoughts onto paper and gets them to really think why they may be struggling with that particular thing. When thinking of journaling, people tend to think of it as something someone does if they love to write, but in fact, it is very valuable to everyone therapeutically. 

#3:
Imagine yourself going through something extremely tough and you either have no one to tell, you have told everyone you could possibly think of, or you can't seem to tell anyone what you are thinking. Journaling is a way to get that out. It helps people on a whole new level. People tend to think that journaling is just for people who love writing but it is much more. Journaling can in fact be very therapeutic. Therapists and Psychologists recommend their patients to journal after their sessions. This helps with whatever they might not have said in the session. It also helps people heal faster. Say you lose someone really close to you and it is taking you awhile to get over it. Journaling is a way to express how you really feel instead of making it known to people. Something like that you want to keep to yourself. 

Step 2:
The second step to this exercise we had to have a friend chose which one they thought was the best out of them. My friend read them all and chose number 2 because she said it made her want to keep reading. 


 Step 3: 
The third step to this exercise we have to ask our friend the following questions:
a) What do you predict this paper is about? 
     Journaling and how it helps a person heal
b) Can you guess what central question I'm trying to answer? 
     What journaling really does for a person
c) Can you predict what my thesis might be?
     Journaling helps people heal.
d) How would you characterize the tone of the paper?
     I feel like the tone of this paper is informative because not many people realize that journaling        can be therapeutic. Many people look at it as something writers love to it.