Thursday, January 29, 2009

4.m

When I have to write an essay, I usually start out by getting something to eat. This is because I can't think on an empty stomach and therefore, need to have something to eat in order to concentrate on my essay. After I have fulfilled my hunger, I turn on a little ambient music, and then just start typing. I try to stop as little as possible and just go with the flow. When I reach the end, I take a break and do something else to take my mind off of my essay. Later that day or some day in the future, I would come back and reread the paper and make any adjustments that I need to make before I go over it with my classmates. Then I fix what needs to be fixed and hand in the final to be graded.
This strategy has always worked out in the end for me as I have never received a grade lower than what I think I deserve. What I find most unhelpful about my writing process is that sometimes I can't just plow through it and when I stop to fix a little part I lose focus on the essay as a whole. So as long as I run through the essay and let my ideas flow, it all works out alright.

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Workshopping Homework

Workshopping is something you do when you need to revise your new paper. It's where you take your first ideas of the paper and throw them around with other people and come out with something more like the finished project you are aiming for. Or, atleast you have some new ideas on how to get there. The great thing about workshopping is that you get to go back and change whatever you need to in your paper and there are other people there that ill make sure it makes sense.
For essay R I would be very motivated to help workshop because he has some very good points and with a little help with his grammer and some advice his works cited and support, he could have come out with a great paper. This is why workshop is so important. This guy could have gotten an A but instead we have decided to giive him a C. I fhe only did some workshopping his grade would have been much higher.

Saturday, January 24, 2009

Response to Essay R

All in all, I would give Essay R a grade of a C. The general concept of the essay was fairly well developed, but there were many grammatical errors. For example, in the second sentence, the author means to ask a question to the reader, but the sentence is not finished with a question mark. Instances like this occur throughout the essay and could have been easily corrected through proofreading. The author also changes from third person to first person and offers many personal opinions which should not be included in the essay.

Although all of his claims and points are made somewhat clearly, he doesn’t have a lot of support and has only one source which could be bias. He needs to get more sources to eliminate this bias and then start to get away from using 1st person and his own opinions on wrestling.