Assignment #1 Reflection

In this week's module, one of the posted tasks was to complete Assignment #1. In all honesty, when I first glanced at the instructions for the assignment, I expected it to be effortless and ineffective. This assignment quickly proved me wrong. I thought that I had a good understanding of CCBC's library databases, but as I was researching my topic, I quickly realized that I had not. I spent the majority of time on this assignment using the CCBC databases, and in turn, found them to be extremely helpful. I particularly like that each database is optimal for searching a specific topic, and I found the advanced version of EasyBib offered by CCBC to be very beneficial. Needless to say, I will be using the CCBC databases more often! I also found this assignment valuable for becoming more familiarized with creating tables, headers, footers, and more in Microsoft Word. Though I use Microsoft Word often, I rarely need to format documents a specific way, so this assignment allowed me to practice with tasks such as those. Another thing I noticed about this assignment was that it was designed so that there would be no extra, unnecessary work. Each question had a unique purpose and was intended to help me reach a certain goal. The only thing that I didn't like about this assignment was that it was extremely time consuming (for me at least), but I appreciate that now because it showed me that I need more practice with using CCBC's library tools and formatting in Microsoft Word!