1) What assignment/document was most useful to you during this proces? Explain your answer. A document that really helped me was Anne Lamotte’s Shitty First Drafts. I had anxiety about writing a draft, because i felt like it had to be well written for the first draft. It was very relieving to learn that we used this moto. Something Lamotte said that helped me ease the anxiety was, “I know some very great, writers you love who write beautifully and have amde a great deal of money, and not one of them sits down routinely feeling wildly enthusiastic and confident. Not one of them writes elegant first drafts.”
2) What was the most helpful feedback you received at any stage – why was it helpful? I think the most useful feedback was from when we did our peer review projects. Friends can help in editing your drafts, but it’s nice to have a set of new eyes from someone that you don’t know all that well. They are usually fairly honest with you and often times give really useful feedback because they have a different style of writing. Also because it’s the first time that they have ever read your work so they are not accostumed to your writing style. This allows for helpful feedback.
3) What was most difficult for you during the drafting process? Easiest? WHY? The hardest part for me was the first draft because it is the first piece of writing that i did for my entire research paper. It is the framework for your actual paper. It was also difficult to do the 2nd draft because my 1st draft mainly comprised of my ideas all written down breifly in a jumbled form. So the second draft was difficult, because of trying to lace them all together. The easiest part i think was my third draft because i then had a better feel as to what i wanted to write about and how to put all of my work together (for the most part).
4) Where does your final essay best show your ability as a writer? I think i show my best ability in my literature review. It still needs a lot of work, but i feel that i got what i wanted to say out in this section. I really liked it because i have never done one before, although it had a rocky beginning. It was interesting how we had to touch on anything that related to our papers and then later we could weave them all together. I feel that this is one of my strongest part, but my paper still needs a lot of work.
