My weakest piece which I am the least proud of is my major essay #3 which I titled Conforming for Love and a Purpose. When writing this essay, I did not follow the rubric. I came unprepared to class on every peer edit day including the one on one session with you in which the essay was suppose to have already been completed. By third quarter I had lost almost all motivation to complete any assignment and I had no idea how to begin writing it.
This is my weakest essay because I did not put in the time and effort to do it well. I slacked off in class and didn’t research my sources enough to fully understand what I was correlating. The prompt of this essay was to identify 3 …show more content…
I had no time left to finish my essay that I stuck my conclusion paragraph on the end when in reality I was only half way through the proper length of the essay. Instead of inserting my picture source between text like instructed, I stapled a piece of paper with the image on it to the back of my essay. My source chart was completely botched because I had never taken the time to ask questions on how to make a functioning chart. Looking back on my mistakes I am ashamed that I did not use the month of time prior to the due date to do an extraordinary job. My work ethic throughout the little time that I spent on this essay was poor and I know I could have done so much …show more content…
If it weren’t for my lack of motivation, than I would not be using this essay as a reflection of my weakest piece. Procrastination isn’t the reason for my synthesis argument, it’s an excuse. All essays will have strong and weak components whether is vocabulary or organization or anything else. My major essay #3 is what I believe to be my weakest piece and the only way to ensure that I don’t write an essay like this again is to higher my standards and expectations to a level that will challenge me. Among the things that make this essay weak, one that sticks out is my organization. I didn’t follow the structure well because I became overwhelmed by the lack of time I provided for myself . I create an imbalance of topics and and a cluster of vagueness that lead to no conclusion of an answer to what the prompt had asked for. I do think that if I had set aside the time and put in the effort that my essay would have turned out