thlog #7

        This week, we created our first drafts of WP2 and had them peer reviewed.  The first journal question really helped me think about my writing process, and how to further revise my essay.  I thought about my strengths and weaknesses, and how my writing improved from my last essay.  My main weaknesses were procrastination and creating an essay that flows with clear transitions.  With so many parts from the prompt to write about, I was not sure how to piece everything together.  Having my essay flow and letting the reader know what was coming next was also a weakness of my first WP1.  Starting off with this journal helped me realize that I need to improve on this weakness.  After finding out that there were other people in the class who had the same problem, I concurred that I should find the main points of the prompt, write about that, and then describe and analyze the main points with the other possible questions from the prompt.  I can also start off with a simple thesis, and then maybe add more to as I continue writing the paper and analyzing the prompt.  This is a process I feel will take me a while, but if I keep working on allowing my essays to flow and transition better, it will help my writing skills in the long run.

I realized from this journal entry that I improved on writing my thoughts onto the paper, without much care for how it sounded like for the first draft.  Like what was said in class, when stuck on how to write a word or phrase it is best to attack it and be aggressive. I was able to use this technique on my essay so that I was not stuck on any part of the writing process.