Module III--Draft revisions

I went back and re-read each article and noticed that the article “The China Dream Revisited,” was not from a scholarly journal! I was left with only a one-paragraph draft after deleting the summary of the China article. I felt I accomplished nothing! This is the most evident revision to my draft; I had to search for two more articles once again. I actually had a difficult time choosing the two articles from Proquest because I wanted to read all of them! To make the elimination process easier, I simply chose the most recent articles. Then, as I skimmed through a few of them, I noticed a trend in the subject –other than the general topic of Foreign Affairs and international relations. I noticed that each article had ties with trade and relations to the United States, and not just the country’s own economic growth and affairs. I finally chose an article about China developing energy relationships with the US and another that discussed Germany’s relationship with Russia, and how incorporating Russia into the European Union could be unfavorable to relations with the US.
After summarizing each of the two articles, I went through my draft one more time, and this time; I changed the introductory paragraph to tie in the trend I noticed of the relationship to the US. I revised some grammatical errors and sentence structures from the article about Brazil. I had so much to write, I was trying so hard to stay close to 700 words, but I couldn’t help but go over. As to my conclusion, I pictured the geographic locations of the countries and thought, the struggle to build trade relationships seems to be between the East and the West, and worked around that thought to conclude my summary.