After revising my work from this past month, I have come to realize how much I have improved on my organization skills when it comes to my essays. Not only have I learned how to keep my paragraphs in an essay relevant to the topic, but I have made sure that my essays flow in a sequential manner. In this aspect, I have redeemed myself from all of my lack of coherency in my previous essays.
On another note, the in class essay we had to do on "A Barred Owl" and "The History Teacher" opened my eyes to finding DIDLS when it came to comparisons and contrasts of both poems. I accurately found the meaning of both poems, but failed on giving valid explanations for both of them. I will make sure to improve on doing so throughout the year. Another flaw I noticed in my writing is the way I insert quotes in my essays, I will be sure that they sound like they belong there rather than throw them in there as evidence. Finding errors in my writing allows me to fix them and flourish as a writer. Thus, it will only get better as the year progresses.
Annotating "Death of A Salesman" helped me understand common Western rules in stories such as the conflict between father and son in Western society or how the West represents a new beginning. I am glad that our in class discussions helped me further my understanding on these subjects, as they appeared to be vague to me before.
I've had similar problems with my essays. Sometimes keeping thing flowing smoothly can be a problem for me. I was also surprised by how much I've improved with my closed prompts. I had bit of trouble with the deeper meaning but I was able to be much more analytical than the first prompt. Annotating Salesman was really enjoyable for me. I found myself finding much more meaning.
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ReplyDeleteAnyways, here it is again,once more, with feelings. I know how you feel about your essays and how it feels like your floating in a mess of ideas, however i'm still struggling with making my organization neater but, like you, i'm much better now than i had been when the year had started. I loved annotations Salesmen. It was fun because the things i noticed i didn't have to look for. I didn't have to stop at a page and ask myself what can i find here? instead, the DIDLS and motifs and symbols jumped out at me naturally. The class discussion helped alot too, since we only see our viewpoint on things its nice to see other people's and the things we missed that they caught.