Week8 Post

This literature review has helped me to focus more on making sure that my sources are reliable and will not negatively affect the credibility of the overall essay. In my literature review, I found the entire writing process to be difficult when I started but once I decided to free write and then organize it afterwards, I found my way out of the writer's block. Most people like to organize what they are going to write first but I like to free write, get all my ideas on paper and then organize it from there. It was also difficult comparing the literature I found but once I found that common thread, it turned out to be pretty easy afterwards. I have learned a lot of financial literacy/illiteracy and how it positively affects small business owners and individuals within society. Unfortunately, some of my questions have still gone unanswered. I wanted to find a more specific research on how financial literacy programs affect small business owners' businesses and have more empirical studies of such findings. However, this was hard to find because the subject I explored needed to be further investigated and researched in order to display accurate effectiveness of financial literacy programs. This assignment has been a revealing process because it showed me what skills I need to work on and taught me a lot about my ability to learn and obtain information in order to make connections with another work. It was really interesting to see the transformation of my review and I look forward to completing prior to graduation. This last assignment has been a learning experience for me and I plan to use these skills in my other classes as well.