I feel that I have learned a lot the writing process. I never thought I could write so much! Writing a paper for me was always getting it perfect the first time, which meant sitting at the computer forever working a sentence at a time. Ever since taking this class, I have been able to just sit and write and not contemplate over every word, just focus on getting all my thoughts down. After writing I then just review and tweak the paper in a series of revisions. I have always had my paper revised , but it was always usually done either by a friend or sometimes my mom, right before the paper was due and often just revised once. Doing many revisions and editing , I feel will give me a great result.
I feel that the one thing I came away with from my research project, is the realization that the church and religion play a very significant role in my ethnic identity. The research and writing I have completed over the past couple of weeks helped me build upon this idea that the church is not only significant but vital for Greek Americans to stay tied to their ethnic identities and roots. Also my research project proved that I am a credible source. My autoethnography allowed me to see that I not only know about my ethnicity and culture, but I am an expert. Overall, this whole project has been a great learning experience of writing and research process, but also about myself as well.
