I felt like my writing skills did improve in project 2. Before college, I had a very hard time at writing something without getting stuck half way through. With the analysis paper, I watched my film so many times and payed such closed attention that I never got stuck in my writing. An0ther improvement was revising my paper throughout the writing process. I used to feel that I could not change my paper until I was finished, but now I feel confident in my decision to change something such as the thesis half way through my paper. I felt very prepared for this paper so everything ran smoothly; I never felt super stressed out which I have in my past papers.
This project did highlight a few areas of weakness in my writing. I noticed that when I feel super confident about a paper, and I’m writing freely, that I make careless mistakes. When I read through my rough draft, I noticed that I had many spelling errors that I missed when I was typing. I also saw punctuation errors as well that I should have fixed. Basically, I became so focused on the deeper meaning of my paper, that I completely looked over the easy components like grammar and spelling.
The most stressful part of dealing with this project was having to dig so deep into my film and constantly feeling like I was missing something. I rewatched the film too many times stressing myself out even more because I felt like I could always add something new to the paper. I successfully dealt with this stress by taking notes and making an outline on what I KNEW needed to be in the paper. I wrote the rough draft and then told myself when I was done that I could decide whether to add more. The paper ended up sounding fine to me, and I’m glad I did not add unnecessary parts of the film to my writing.
For my epilogue post, I want to remember to always check over my paper for mistakes even though I may feel confident. This is my worst habit, and I need to always remember to do it because there are so many times where I could have gotten a better grade if I would have checked for careless mistakes. I decided to check over Project 2s paper, and I am so thankful I did because I had way too many careless errors that I did not notice the first time through typing. This is an important thing I learned about my work in this unit that I want to be sure to remember.