Sunday, October 13, 2013

Using the self-review process: Describe your papers strengths and weakness.

     The Rhetorical Analysis Essay is our current assignment in English class. This week specifically we were to have our rough draft done and use the self-review process to help us in making final revisions before the paper is due on October 16th


     The self-review sheet that Mr. Sentell provided is a good guideline to follow as to if we have written a good paper. One thing that still gets me every time is the fact that I am so used to revising as I go. This means I may have already answered some of those questions or revised my paper several time while it was still underway. This makes it difficult for me to use the paper like it was designed, but this time I am really trying.


     I did find that one weakness to my paper is I don’t think it was the best match to the assignment. It is too late to change now so I have to keep going with what I've got. Next time need to spend more time on getting the correct paper to analyze up front.


     One of my strengths is that there are clear relationships between the thesis and supporting points. If I rely on this strength maybe it will overcome my weakness just enough that I can pull this off after all. 

1 comment:

  1. Jason, I always edit as I go, and I also have a hard time using this review process. I know that this process will be really helpful if I use it correctly, but I always struggle with it.
    I, too, felt like I picked a poor topic after I had already started. This really frustrated me, and made me feel like my essay was going to be terrible. However, I pressed though. Your strength is my weakness. For some reason my relationships between the supporting point and thesis paper are weak. I think this is because, in my mind, I know what I am trying to say, so it is harder for me to pick up on these things. I will have to develop my editing eye. haha

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