Thursday, March 11, 2010
High/Mid/Low
Reflecting on my work throughout the semester, I have realized that I have not written to my potential. I feel I have the skills to efficiently write a good paper, but have failed to implement all of them. On my close reading paper, like the ones we looked over today in class, I could have done a lot better. I didn't really understand the purpose of the assignment outside of class and our close reading skills, so I pretty much just aimed the paper at Rachel as my audience by explaining simply what the epigraphs meant and analyzing them a little bit. I gave background information on the authors and related that to Krakauer and McCandless, but my paragraphs had hardly any relation and not even I would want to read it - I think that says something haha. If I had to put a grade on it, I would say low. This being due to the fact that I could've gone deeper into analysis and connected my ideas thoroughly to things outside of McCandless and Krakauer, making the essay appeal to an audience wider than my English 101 teacher and the students in that class. Any essay that is written simply to fulfill an assignment's requirements is not a worthy paper in my book and I think over break, and the next month or so, I will have my work cut out for me in terms of revision!
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I think you hit on something really important when you talked about wanting your paper appeal to more paper than our English class. I get so wrapped up in trying to do the class assignment that sometimes I forget that there should be a deeper meaning in my writing. I guess that's the point of having an argument, but it is hard sometimes to connect my specific argument into a more general thing, you know? It good to hear that someone else finds it hard to make connections that go further than our reading. I also know what you mean about not writing to your full potential. I get really frustrated when I can't get all the awesome ideas in my head onto paper! Sometimes it is because I don't leave myself enough time, but mostly it is just because I have a very disorganized head haha! But I am also really looking forward to revising so I can give my ideas a chance to be heard
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