My Definition Of Love

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My definition paper I turned in last week was not a complicated paper, but I had a few troubles along the way. I really just had one main problem and it was making my definition interesting enough and giving it enough claim. Having to figure out what love is not and making it flow smoothly was not a breeze to do either. Overall the essay was not hard to write about there were just a few little mistakes I had along the way that made it complicated.
My main problem was trying to make my definition interesting and giving it enough claim. Writing on love was a great idea, but I could just not figure out a way to make my definition broad enough. It also was not easy trying to make a definition of love in my own words without looking it up first. After I sat and put some thought into about what love was to me, I finally made my definition broad but to the point. Then I had trouble with trying to make the body of the paragraph give my definition enough support. By fixing this I looked up the real definition and thought of some examples to add to it. When I did that it gave my definition enough support and it also made the paragraph interesting.
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Trying to figure out enough examples to compare to my definition and make them flow smoothly was tough. So I put each example of what love is not and told why people got it confused. By giving examples of why people would get it confused, it gave evidence to the reader to show why it is not love. Giving evidence helped the reader to not get lost and try to figure out how it does not compare. Also, I did that so the reader would not get confused and quit reading. None of this was easy at all, but I had to put some critical thinking into it and I finally figured it

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