During this past semester in English 112, I have worked toward improving my writing skills through practice. Throughout this course I wrote four essays: a summary and response, an argumentative, a literary analysis, and a multigenre. Each of these papers were a different type and had its own specific goal to work on. These goals varied greatly and were achieved to a different degree of success. Each paper is presented in the order in which they were written, with the drafts on the left and the final copies on the right. Out of the four, I would consider my multigenre paper to be the strongest, and the summary and response to be my weakest. Reasoning for this will be expanded on later in the preface. In the first paper, the summary and response,
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In other words, I described how the transition from poetry to prose affected the play. After performing my initial research, I scrapped the first draft and started fresh. I found a book which was written by another author about plotlines and applied it to Hamlet. After writing this draft, I believe the effort spent on achieving my goal and writing a well formulated essay was well-balanced. This resulted in a well-rounded paper which accomplished and surpassed both my personal and classroom goals. The last paper I wrote this semester was a multigenre paper. This was my first time experiencing this genre and so I was a bit hesitant to take risks at first. I decided a good goal was simply to get familiarized with the techniques required so I could continue to use this style in later classes. After my first hour or two, I was already beginning to see that this was a style that could not be done without taking risks, so I decided to change my initial philosophe and goal. I decided to replace my previous goal with “take risks while writing the paper, if they do not work out, swap it with a different genre.” I quickly realized that, given the extreme flexibility of these projects, this was by far the most effective way to go about
In other words, I described how the transition from poetry to prose affected the play. After performing my initial research, I scrapped the first draft and started fresh. I found a book which was written by another author about plotlines and applied it to Hamlet. After writing this draft, I believe the effort spent on achieving my goal and writing a well formulated essay was well-balanced. This resulted in a well-rounded paper which accomplished and surpassed both my personal and classroom goals. The last paper I wrote this semester was a multigenre paper. This was my first time experiencing this genre and so I was a bit hesitant to take risks at first. I decided a good goal was simply to get familiarized with the techniques required so I could continue to use this style in later classes. After my first hour or two, I was already beginning to see that this was a style that could not be done without taking risks, so I decided to change my initial philosophe and goal. I decided to replace my previous goal with “take risks while writing the paper, if they do not work out, swap it with a different genre.” I quickly realized that, given the extreme flexibility of these projects, this was by far the most effective way to go about