The first hurdle
When asked how I feel after turning in the final draft, one thing comes to mind…relieved! Seriously, I always feel like the first paper is the hardest one of them all. It gets us back into the swing of things after our breaks and it really tests if we are ready to go for the reast of the semester. In terms of how I think I did, I think that I managed alright. It is always a difficult process and it is always time consuming, but when I was done putting in all the work, I felt pretty good about the whole deal. There was a lot of room for improvement after the rough draft, but I feel like I got a lot of the kinks out. There is definitely still going to be some mistakes, but overall I feel pretty good about it. Thank goodness that there is more time to improve on our future essays and I hope to do a little better on the rest, but I feel like I put in a lot of time and effort into this particular paper and I can only hope for the best.
My writing process included brainstorming, a lot of repeated reading of the text, Writing outlines, writing the rough draft, and most of all planning. That was one of the hardest parts of the whole essay. It is hard to work full time and find time for the essays. We learn to sacrifice a lot, but in the end it will be well worth it. Definetly, planning was the biggest part of my writing process.
The part of the process that I would keep is just that, the planning. I felt like I managed my time well and left enough time for myself to complete the paper and revise it until it suited me. The part that I would change is the reading process. I feel like I didn’t mark my text enough and I found myself searching for the important parts or the parts of the essay that I wanted to emphasize in my own work. I found out quick that marking my text would only benefit me in the end.
I feel like essay 2 will build on essay 1 mainly because essay one taught us to read critically and that will be essential to essay 2. we will be thinking more about our own arguments in essay 2 and I think that the critique prepared us well for learning how to find the main points of an argument.