Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Self-Review

After filling out my self-review, I feel pretty confident with my essay.  From the beginning, my problem with my own essay writing is my confidence.  Every time that I write an essay I am weary of how it will be graded.  For example, did I do a good job, is my grammar right, will I get a good grade?  I guess you could call it "writer's anxiety."  When I follow the self-review prompt, it does help me "fine-tune" my essay. 

A strength that I can count on would be my titles.  I wish I could make the rest of the essay as easy as it is coming up with a title.  For some reason, I can think of an interesting title in about 30 seconds.  Of course, that's only a couple words, whereas the essay should be about 1500 words.  With strengths, there is usually weaknesses.  My weaknesses so far, would be the overall "flow" of the essay.  I've been struggling in my previous essays with transitioning from paragraph to paragraph, while still focusing on the "point" of the essay.

Hopefully, for this last essay I will get it right. 

2 comments:

  1. Tyler I feel the same way and I'm actually reading some of these bloggs to help with others confidence but mostly 'MINE" lol it really does help me. I know our paper is due tomorrow and I think the rough draft already past due which I haven't submitted yet for I'm at quite a loss with this, so instead of 'writer's anxiety' you could definitely say I have 'writer's block'!!

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  2. Tyler,
    I'm glad you felt confident about your essay. I sure didn't! I'm also great at coming up with titles- it's the paper part that drove me crazy! I felt that the flow of my paper as well as the grammatical structure was fine. I just had a problem proving my point while still using the information that I already had.
    I bet you did wonderful on your paper!

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