I started college with a little hope that it wouldn’t be as hard as everyone says. I started my first week and I already hard several difficult papers to conquer. I started my first paper due for my religion class, hours and hours of blood and guts spilled into this document and all that was produced were eight agonizing pages, littered with mistakes and just a terrible read. I turned in the paper knowing that my teacher laughed out loud with pure enjoyment. It was so dreadful to even look at that I submitted it without a blink of an eye and a sigh of relief came across my lips. I don’t know why I felt better, I just submitted a paper that would only come to bring this year of college more pain and sorrow. I know that college would have struggles
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The trademark woman on the cover, with the cloth “A” on her dress stared back at me with an almost taunting look as to tease me, as If she could read my mind because she knew I wouldn’t understand any of the words in between the covers of her adulterous story. Mr. Malcom assigned a paper where you had to choose a quote from the book and write a four page paper on that quote. I drug myself home to my computer and I sat down to begin my long and depressing paper. I jumped right into this atrocious essay without even thinking about an outline or brainstorming. I finished and a smile formed on my face and I jumped around my room in a happy dance because I was finally done, except, the paper was only 2 pages long. I stared at my computer screen, after a few hours had passed, and the two pages that were complete before were detailed, without mistakes and enjoyable and the last two, ruined the whole paper. Instead of taking the time and rewriting and revising, like Donald Murray Proposes in his essay, “Internal Revision”, I jumped right into submitting my paper that was littered with mistakes. According to Donald Murray, students are not taught in schools today revise and go back and rewrite papers. They are just so used to submitting whatever they wrote to the teacher that they just will do that whenever
The trademark woman on the cover, with the cloth “A” on her dress stared back at me with an almost taunting look as to tease me, as If she could read my mind because she knew I wouldn’t understand any of the words in between the covers of her adulterous story. Mr. Malcom assigned a paper where you had to choose a quote from the book and write a four page paper on that quote. I drug myself home to my computer and I sat down to begin my long and depressing paper. I jumped right into this atrocious essay without even thinking about an outline or brainstorming. I finished and a smile formed on my face and I jumped around my room in a happy dance because I was finally done, except, the paper was only 2 pages long. I stared at my computer screen, after a few hours had passed, and the two pages that were complete before were detailed, without mistakes and enjoyable and the last two, ruined the whole paper. Instead of taking the time and rewriting and revising, like Donald Murray Proposes in his essay, “Internal Revision”, I jumped right into submitting my paper that was littered with mistakes. According to Donald Murray, students are not taught in schools today revise and go back and rewrite papers. They are just so used to submitting whatever they wrote to the teacher that they just will do that whenever