Rough Draft Analysis

I really enjoyed some of the writing technique essays that we read in class. I usually spend several hours doing just my rough draft. For some reason, I had never considered just doing word throw up on my paper to help develop my ideas. The first draft shouldn’t be the final. My first draft was terrible, because I just wrote whatever came to my mind often not in complete sentences. The way that is sucked however, really help me figure out what I wanted to write about and helped me form a more solid opinion about it. I also liked receiving the essay about polaroid’s and being a perfectionist. It helped me realize the errors I had been making in my past essays. By critiquing every little detail in my rough draft until I thought it was perfect, …show more content…
“ Socrates once said, “I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. “This quote is especially important on a self-reflection basis. Everyone knows that at some point in their life there is going to be a monstrous challenge they have to face. This challenge is going to be big and nasty looking. Its fangs and claws will appear to make our life experience seem minute. It will growl and snarl and knock us on our bums. Essentially, there will come a point where every human will not know how to defeat this challenge, and inevitably fail. It would be unrealistic for anyone to have an organized plan for every single thing they will have to tackle. Especially since life never runs in a linear order; it’s a tangled thread of rocky hopes and shady, unexposed weaves. Regardless of a person’s age, everyone will come to several points in life where they can’t handle a situation. No amount of “life experience” can deter this beast.” The significant thing to notice here is that I was able to not only make sense of the quote, but also put it into metaphorical and real life terms. I induced thinking (or at least I hope I did) on a few different levels. My first draft bluntly explained an idea in a nonsensical …show more content…
It really helped me understand what an ideal definition looks like. It involved a little bit of self-reflection and challenging the automatic judgement people tend to have. The essay also compared the judgment of a woman, to the judgement of a man. I had the idea to write about naiveté, using teenagers as an example. Mainly because teenagers are automatically judged for being young. I wanted to defy the idea of who really was naïve. Throughout the first draft, I was trying to develop an opinion about it, I had a basic idea of what I wanted to do however I didn’t know how the final result would develop. In the end I was able to conclude that teenagers aren’t the only naïve ones, it is all of