As this week progressed, I learned another valuable set of information about the writing process. While doing the literacy guide, I had to write multiple drafts in order to get my paper where I thought that it should be. I know that I am going to have to do the same drafting process with my visual analysis, but it will be slightly different. With this unit, we aren’t writing about an article or other text form, we are writing about a video. The hardest thing about this is that you have to watch the video over and over day after day until you feel confident that you have gotten all of the needed information out of it. My hashtag sums up this week in terms of the drafting process: watch the video, read over your notes and draft, and then repeat the process. After multiple times of completing this process of the weekend, I hope that my draft will be so much better than it currently is.
This hashtag is pretty specific to the unit that we were doing but I still think that it can apply to all of the work that we put in as college students. Whether it is studying for a test or doing some math homework, looking at it once is never enough. If time permits, look over your work three or four times. I cannot tell you how many times I have taken a test and not looked back over it and ultimately miss a few questions because I stupidly answered the question or flat out skipped it. Hint, I have done this on every single Biology test this year. You would have thought that I would have learned after the first one, but unfortunately for me I did not.