I feel that my writing/research skills did improve from this project. I noticed that unlike my very first paper, I was able to quickly conduct a solid thesis and knew exactly how I wanted my paper to be structured. I also love arguments so maybe that is why this paper flowed easier to me than any of my past papers. I usually have bad writer’s block and get stuck on one paragraph for a long time, but in this paper I knew what I needed to write.
I did notice some areas of weakness though in this project. I notice this in each of my papers and it is that i feel like i’m always struggling to reach the word count and have to start finding new information to include. I think that is just because in my high school we never had to meet a certain word count. I also always question my works cited page and am never 100% sure if it is correct because of all the MLA rules always changing.
The most stressful part of this essay was having to rewrite the entire thing and remember and try to find my original sources from the original paper. My computer glitched and completely broke down. I took it to get fixed, but they said it was unfixable. I had to order a new computer and at this point knew I would not reach the due date. I was able to get an extension from my amazing teacher. It took longer to rewrite than I though because I lost all of my sources so the paper was slightly different, but I did end up finishing it in the end. I dealt with this stress by just getting it done. It didn’t help with the stress of the presidential election always on in the background, but I just persevered and wrote as fast as possible. I would say I was successful since I finished the paper in the end.
If I could do anything differently on this paper, I would have asked someone like one of my teachers to read it so I could have a professional opinion. But I was on crunched time with my computer breaking so hopefully i will do this on my next and final paper. For my writing process, I can honestly say I would not have done it differently. I am pretty strict and repetitive when it comes to my writing process. So that answers the next part which is yes I would keep every aspect of my writing process because I felt that it worked best for me.