Just as with any author of a book, I have my strengths and weaknesses which contribute to my style of writing, although my writing strengths imbalance the many weaknesses I feel I have as a writer. Throughout the course of this class, I learned that a good writer should write, revise, and rewrite as much as possible to generate an essay into its best shape. Through the intense brainstorming, structured outlining, and many revisions of my paper assignments, I have developed a sense of confidence about my writing.
Throughout the many paper assignments throughout my lifetime, I learned to dislike comparison and contrast papers the most because I felt coerced into following a specific structure. Surprisingly enough, my comparison and contrast …show more content…
Although, analyzing has always been a requisite throughout my high school course, I did not fully understand what it meant to analyze until Dr. Popham broke it down for me. By focusing on certain key words, I developed a lengthy analysis which defined the entire message the author attempted to convey. My very first entry, Christopher Scanlan’s “The Young Who Died Delivered Us,” mainly summarized the general meaning of the keywords rather than going into depth of their meaning and connection to the thesis statement. I only developed surface level analyzation of what I could interpret from the quote. As time progressed, my journal entries became solid and more thorough. In the entry “A Hanging” by George Orwell, I deeply analyzed the meaning of each word in the quotes and actually ran out of room as I finished the journal. In the next entry, Donald M. Murray’s “What Football Taught Me”, I started to analyze the overall theme of his writing by carefully analyzing the diction he used throughout his writing. By focusing on more in depth ideas, I came to the realization of what it truly meant to analyze. My final entry, “What is Perfect Anyway? Simply Being Beautiful?” by Terry McMillan, contained the most analysis as I related to the author’s theme myself. The more entries I completed, …show more content…
By revising my introduction paragraph, I added style to my “Dance to Live and Live to Dance” paper because it sounded more engaging and captivating from the start. Following such revision, I decided to add more evidence to elaborate of the main focus of the entirety of my paper. Thus by adding more evidence from new sources, I added more variety to my paper because there were more point of views that contributed to my paper in my favor. I also revised the conclusion which directly revamped my title since I followed Dr. Popham’s advice on using parts of the conclusion paragraph to develop a good title. One of the biggest revisions I made on my “Dance to Live and Live to Dance” paper was organization of my paragraphs because they were originally all too long and contained too much information in one. After adjusting all these rough edges to my research paper, I confidently developed it to a point where my argument was clearer and more effectively supported by the evidence I
Throughout the many paper assignments throughout my lifetime, I learned to dislike comparison and contrast papers the most because I felt coerced into following a specific structure. Surprisingly enough, my comparison and contrast …show more content…
Although, analyzing has always been a requisite throughout my high school course, I did not fully understand what it meant to analyze until Dr. Popham broke it down for me. By focusing on certain key words, I developed a lengthy analysis which defined the entire message the author attempted to convey. My very first entry, Christopher Scanlan’s “The Young Who Died Delivered Us,” mainly summarized the general meaning of the keywords rather than going into depth of their meaning and connection to the thesis statement. I only developed surface level analyzation of what I could interpret from the quote. As time progressed, my journal entries became solid and more thorough. In the entry “A Hanging” by George Orwell, I deeply analyzed the meaning of each word in the quotes and actually ran out of room as I finished the journal. In the next entry, Donald M. Murray’s “What Football Taught Me”, I started to analyze the overall theme of his writing by carefully analyzing the diction he used throughout his writing. By focusing on more in depth ideas, I came to the realization of what it truly meant to analyze. My final entry, “What is Perfect Anyway? Simply Being Beautiful?” by Terry McMillan, contained the most analysis as I related to the author’s theme myself. The more entries I completed, …show more content…
By revising my introduction paragraph, I added style to my “Dance to Live and Live to Dance” paper because it sounded more engaging and captivating from the start. Following such revision, I decided to add more evidence to elaborate of the main focus of the entirety of my paper. Thus by adding more evidence from new sources, I added more variety to my paper because there were more point of views that contributed to my paper in my favor. I also revised the conclusion which directly revamped my title since I followed Dr. Popham’s advice on using parts of the conclusion paragraph to develop a good title. One of the biggest revisions I made on my “Dance to Live and Live to Dance” paper was organization of my paragraphs because they were originally all too long and contained too much information in one. After adjusting all these rough edges to my research paper, I confidently developed it to a point where my argument was clearer and more effectively supported by the evidence I