Walt Whitman Reflection

At the beginning of the year around the same time that the first essay assignment was being discussed and explained I began to think that the assignment was going to be somewhat easy. I began to search for books that seemed interesting to research, that I could use for the assignment. The selection process was one of the most time consuming parts of the assignment. I I gathered the final four books which were “Rebel Souls”, “Walt Whitman Reconsidered”, “Walt Whitman: A Gay Life”, and “Walt Whitman”. I began to realize that this essay was not as easy as I thought it was. After I finished my first draft, I had a meeting with the writing colleague Makayla about it. I was given feedback that had to do with how the books do not have to relate to each other, so that allowed me to find the essay a little easier. The only problem that I came across towards the end was that I did not really explain the purpose of the books that I used for the assignment. I received a …show more content…
I choose to write about the color blind racism that occurred during the musical. I looked for articles and scholarly articles that dealt with some type of racism in the play, I came across an article that was about the music choices of the chosen for specific actors and their race. An example of this is a black female actor performing a hip-hop piece. When I was continuing to write my final product I found another source that dealt with issues such as minorities not being represented in the musical play. I began to incorporate sentence structures from the book “They say/I say” for the essay to include sections of my ideas and statements about the ideas of the authors. I had to revise my introduction and the thesis statement that I created so it can allow the other body paragraphs to connect to it. I turned in my essay, I got it back and received an 82 on it. It was a slight improvement from the first essay. I wanted to get better for the essays to