My final draft of the rhetorical analysis of “Marijuana Legalization Defended” by Scott Kolker is a composition of four total drafts. I began by getting the information I wanted down and into the right format that someone would need to make a rhetorical analysis. The second draft involved simple revisions of spelling and grammar to make sure that everything made sense to the reader and could be easily read. After our workshop in class together, I went and revised the draft to for more details that included adding more details and went into a greater detail, this ended up adding a little over a page of deeper detail for the reader to understand the points I was trying to make. My fourth and final draft was incredibly analytical of not only his
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In my third draft it was a long drawn out paragraph that wasn’t terrible, but I wanted a stronger ending. Just like at the end of a speech you want to end with something that will be thought about or remembered, I wanted to end my paper with a strong finish. It helped separate the two thoughts, and it also made for a more direct conclusion paragraph.
A little detail that I thought about when editing the last time is my use of the same words over and over again, I noticed that I was using a lot of the same phrases over and over again which made my writing choppy and monotonous so I went through and changed some of these things up so that it read smoothly and had a less monotonous tone to the writing. To hit on the idea of making my writing less monotonous I realized I used some very vague wording, so I went through and tried to expand on the words like “bad” or “thing” so that my writing was more …show more content…
When I came to college I struggled writing long papers because I was so focused on the length and not on what I was trying to say. I realize now that usually it is very easy to hit length requirements, but something you have to do is be able to make your wording concise. Some people think that you have to write things over and over again in different ways to make a paper long, which is what I saw a few times in my third draft of this essay. I know now that I will be able to write whatever length is necessary, but I need to focus more on my fluidity and clarity. I learned that having a concise three page paper is a lot better than having a poorly structured and not well thought out five page
In my third draft it was a long drawn out paragraph that wasn’t terrible, but I wanted a stronger ending. Just like at the end of a speech you want to end with something that will be thought about or remembered, I wanted to end my paper with a strong finish. It helped separate the two thoughts, and it also made for a more direct conclusion paragraph.
A little detail that I thought about when editing the last time is my use of the same words over and over again, I noticed that I was using a lot of the same phrases over and over again which made my writing choppy and monotonous so I went through and changed some of these things up so that it read smoothly and had a less monotonous tone to the writing. To hit on the idea of making my writing less monotonous I realized I used some very vague wording, so I went through and tried to expand on the words like “bad” or “thing” so that my writing was more …show more content…
When I came to college I struggled writing long papers because I was so focused on the length and not on what I was trying to say. I realize now that usually it is very easy to hit length requirements, but something you have to do is be able to make your wording concise. Some people think that you have to write things over and over again in different ways to make a paper long, which is what I saw a few times in my third draft of this essay. I know now that I will be able to write whatever length is necessary, but I need to focus more on my fluidity and clarity. I learned that having a concise three page paper is a lot better than having a poorly structured and not well thought out five page