ESSAY REFLECTION
Explain your writing process (How was the peer review helpful? What other steps did you take in revising and editing your work?).
What was most difficult about this assignment? What aspects of the assignment came to you more naturally?
What did you learn or realize during this assignment that you found interesting or helpful?
What is the most interesting part of your essay?
Currently, what aspect of writing gives you the most trouble (Grammar, Process, Generating ideas, Planning, etc.)?
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I wrote like a faucet, i just opened up and let it pour out. The peer review was helpful, it fixed many grammatical errors. The difficulty i felt lied in coming up with solid examples to explain why i felt like i did. The easiest part would have to have been explaining the examples. I learned that our world is much more sexist when then what i had thought it to be. The most interesting part of my essay is the comparison with day care workers, read it and you will know why. I feel i am solid with most of the idea, however the process for me can be a bit shaky.
Peer review was extremely helpful. My peer reviewer reminded me that I didn't answer all of the questions from the sheet we had done in the previous class. This assignment was difficult because I wasn't completely positive about how I felt. What came more naturally to me was taking points out of the essay and responding to them how I felt. I thought it was interesting that I agreed with reverse sexism and I'm a girl. I never really read on my own but it just goes to show how a well written article can effect you. The most interesting part of my essay is when I talk about the mining accident and what the reporter says. I don't think ordinary news viewers realize that the media is sexist against men. The most difficult aspect of my writing is organizing it. I always feel like my writing is all over the place.
Overall my writing process went well. Before i started writing I organized my thoughts into an outline. The peer review was helpful because I got to hear what part of my essay was useful and what parts needed some adjustments. The most difficult part of the essay was organizing all my thoughts into paragraphs and writing it out in a logical way. I learned how to summarize an article and agree or disagree with it at the same time. I liked how I got to take a stance and elaborate on the essay I read and add my own thoughts. The aspect of writing that gives me the most trouble is generating my ideas and then planning/organizing them into a paper.
For my essay, I would talk about individual topics Tannen talked about in her essay. Then, I would say what I thought about it and what I though personally. The peer review was helpful because it gave me pointers on how I could make it easier for other people o better understand the message I was trying to get across. I read through my essay both quickly and slowly to accentuate pauses and check for spelling errors. I think the most difficult part of the assignment was meeting the page quota and the easier part for me personally was giving my responses. The most interesting part of my essay I think are my responses because they both agree with and question Tannens statements. I would say I have the most trouble with grammar and planning.
The writing process for me involved first note taking...I took notes of and underlined in the text what appeared useful, which I then placed into a VERY rough draft of what I was feeling in response to the article. From there I dressed it up and presented my case from there. The paper sort of evolved from thought to print in this fashion. The thought process though came almost as instinct. Drawing from my speaking style I was able to make sentences and points that produced a lot of powerful thought in a little section of paper, but then again, this is a double edged sword. Paper writing and discussion are slightly different so making that distinction was difficult.
Difficulties, there were many...first off was where to start, what points to hit, what to exclude...then came how to integrate this into my life and make it personal. Its easy to have an opinion, its difficult to explain that opinion so that it is clear, concise, and credible.
One thing I did find helpful was the "lay person" such as my roommate, girlfriend, and some other friends read over the paper...all giving me pointers on flow and how to make it an easier read. Its easy for someone who has read the articles and pieces in question to interpret what is being said, but this paper is written for a person who has no prior knowledge of the pieces.
The most interesting thing I believe is the ending. After all the facts and points are displayed a challenge is issued in the conclusion. The issues discussed are ongoing and evolving everyday, so a difinitave conclusion would not do these issues any justice. I felt a charge to action would more suit an ending to a piece where a lot of controversy is laid open, where the tendons and marrow were visible.
My writing process is all about the charts. I made charts to plan all of my arguments that I would make in the essay. Peer review really helped me catch things that I may have missed such as; unclear sentences, grammatical errors, and boring segments of my paper. I thought the difficult part of the assignment was formulating arguments into words because sometimes it was hard to describe what I meant. However, once I started writing I found it easy to string ideas together. I found it helpful to be able to discuss our ideas in class which helped me to formulate ideas better, which is why I think the most interesting aspect of my essay is how I do not discredit August's claims, but rather add to them and shine light on holes in his arguments. That came relatively easy, but i need to work on elaborating on my ideas.
Peer review is always helpful to me also a slight relief; if someone else can make sense of my writing that is pure gold! The whole MLA format deal is a bit more tricky to what I am used to. Looking into other articles and resources, really writing the assignment itself. I liked being able to write about social issues and the people involved. The OU library is pretty impressive, and everyone in its walls seems eager to help, so that's nice. The most interesting part of my essay is more than likely my conclusion, I think it offers a partial solution to making social issues a little easier to talk about and resolve; in my opinion at least.
Writing essay #1 was a great way to dust the cob webs off of my writing skills. To me the peer reviews were very helpful and i used their advice a lot in my writing. I think that it helped my paper to become more rounded. Also i would constantly read over my essay a least once a day to try and find any little things that i missed. I think the hardest part of the assignment was writing the summary and also making the essay flow properly. The summary was difficult because it was hard to confine all of the information to the article in 250 words or less. I think the part that came the easiest was actually writing the body of the essay. once i got rollin, i was on top of my game and just could keep going an going. In high school i was the biggest procrastinator and during this essay i started it much earlier so that i had a lot of time for editing and i learned that it helps to make your essay better if you have time to work rather than completing it in a giant cram session. The most interesting part of my essay was the summary. i think that it gives a great description of the whole article and it will keep the reader interested enough to read the whole paper. I think the aspect of writing that gives me the most trouble is my punctuation, and flow.
The peer review helped me because it gave me another students perspective on my writing other than just a professors. Being given ideas, grammatical changes, and so on, helped me put together a more solid paper. I filled some glaring holes in my summary and also beefed up my body paragraphs.
I would say the most difficult aspect of this assignment was deciding which prompt to write about. To me, both essays brought about questions and ideas on which i could write on.
I learned that level one abstractions were the best type of example for a paper such as this. Using experiences and first-hand views made this paper an easier one for me to complete.
I would say the most interesting part of my essay has to deal with my own experiences and shortcomings when it comes to Augusts' essay.
My process, when it comes to writing, is not exactly by the book or normal. Sometimes i just cant flow or think clearly and then i end up typing a second or third body paragraph before i write and intro or a first body.
My writing process for Essay #1 ended up coming to me fairly easily. i pretty much just read through the article again after getting the prompt and then went through one more time and picked out things that I thought I might want to use as quotes, support, etc. The peer review was some what helpful because my peers caught a few small things that I missed and cold change just to clean the essay up a little bit. Also I emailed my essay to an old English teacher and asked him for some suggestions on my first complete draft.
The first essay was fairly easy for me to write on because it was an issue that I have thought about myself plenty of times before, so generating ideas didn't cause too much of an issue.
The biggest thing that I realized after writing the essay was that maybe I'm not as bad at writing as i thought I was. I was pretty happy with my finished product so it gave me a little bit of a confidence boost.
The most interesting part of my essay is the added personal experiences because it gives more of a connection between me as the writer and the reader.
However, in the future I do know that my biggest problem is just starting out and coming up with the ideas that I want to put down on paper. Once I start and have a process things usually go fairly smooth.
Writing Essay #1 for me was a little difficult. I am not a good writer as it is. Writing really never has been my thing. the hardest thing about this essay was expanding my thoughts to make a good solid essay. I'm the type of person who will answer a question short, sweet, and to the point. This being the opposite of what is needed for the essay made things difficult. One thing I found helpful was the peer reviews. They helped me realize what I needed to expand on and what I needed to focus my essay on. The most interesting part of my essay I believe is the fact that I bring Tannen's argument into a different world, i.e. the man world. The aspect of writing that still gives me the most trouble is putting my thoughts into a well organized essay. The thoughts are there I just have trouble getting it down on paper.
I started my essay with a summery of Tannen's paper and followed this with the main point of my paper along with what i would use to support this point. In this particular paper I argued that Tannen was correct in her argument that "marking" still exists, but that she was wrong in that it only targets women. I used several personal experiences from both high school and the workplace to back up my statements. I also utilized the points she made in her own essay such as the physical description of the women that she gives and her reference to Ralph Fascold's work. The peer review was a big help in getting me started on the revising part. I let several other people from my dorm read my paper to so that I received as many viewpoints as I could.
To me the most difficult part of this assignment was going over my paper again and again looking for errors or ways to improve it. It's just really boring. The easiest part of the assignment for me was coming up with personal examples to support my stance. The main thing i realized while writing this paper is that it is always a good idea to utilize the people around you to give you there viewpoint of your paper. I think the most interesting part of my paper is my connection of Tannen's work to my own high school and workplace experiences. At the moment I believe that grammar is my biggest nemesis.
My writing process did not involve too many steps considering I usually write a rough copy before I even plan what I am going to write. But I just started writing and when ideas came while I wrote, I edited the other content in my paper to correspond to the rest of the paper. After I had this copy peer edited, I added in other information that was necessary so the peer editing was very helpful. After the peer editing, I did my own editing and wrote the final copy.
The most difficult part of the assignment was trying to show my opinion on the matter without looking at society or other large institutions as a whole. This was difficult, but once I found a way to organize the paper, writing on a very individual basis was the most natural part of my writing process.
The best thing I realized was how I could tell a story within an opinion based paper in order to explain my view and set up a situation to help others understand why I feel the way I do.
I believe the most interesting part of my paper is the individual story I try to tell in order to critique society as a whole.
The hardest aspect of writing for me is the planning and process of it. I have a hard time trying to organize my thoughts without just writing them out.
My writing process is pretty free, I kind of just write whatever I am thinking or whatever ideas come to my mind. Then after I write for a while I go back through my paper and look at my ideas and start to organize them. Peer review is helpful to me because they find things in my writing that I don't and they point out sentences that don't make sense, wording that is confusing, and grammar mistakes. When I revise my essay I take as many as the corrections or ideas as I can from the peer reviewer without changing my paper completely or rewriting it completely.
The most difficult of this assignment was organizing all of my thoughts into completely paragraphs that made sense.
The thing that came to me the most naturally was being able to just write my opinion about the essay in my paper.
I learned from writing this assignment that papers don't all have to be analytical, some papers can actually be somewhat fun to write.
I think the most interesting part of my essay is when I talk about the military draft and the story I tell to explain how I feel.
The aspect of writing that gives me the most trouble is probably grammar and generating some ideas to write about. But once I get my ideas, its not a problem to get writing.
I started off my writing process by choosing a thesis and then basing the rest of my paper around it. The peer review was very helpful in that it helped me with some of the content issues i had inside the paper. I also had two of my other peers outside of class review my paper for grammatical issues. The most difficult thing about this assignment was the choosing of my topic. I didn't really know what to write about. The aspects of the assignment that came to me naturally was the fact that men are biased against in today's society, and how the media makes the entire situation worse. I learned to be a little less judgmental with my words. I used to say "That's gay!" or "Dude, your so queer.", and now i realize that i was adding to the biased against men. The most interesting thing about this essay was all the different words we hve in the English language to describe men in a negative way. The aspect of writing that gives me the most trouble is grammar.
My process started with a verbal brainstorm. I talked to a friend of mine and we discussed some different key points in the article. After that I felt I had a pretty good bases to start the essay. as I typed it up I reviewed credibility, accuracy, and how well my points were stated by proofreading and have others read my work. Peer review was helpful because you get to see how well someone else can read and understand your work. The most difficult part about the assignment was the initial beginning of just making the introduction. One thing I learned from this is that gender issues are a very debated and very hard to be brought in to one prospective. I think the most interesting part of my essay is the beginning of my strong response. I think I am having the most trouble with the brainstorming process.
My writing process for this essay was pretty basic. After I decided what my main points were going to be I looked through the text again to find examples then just sat down and wrote. Peer reviews were helpful because they catch the mistakes I miss, and help me budget my time and have the paper at least partially done so I don't wait until the last minute to do everything.
The hardest part of this assignment was probably developing my ideas more so I could meet the page requirement. I knew what I wanted to do but I just needed more examples.
An easier aspect of this paper for me was probably the structure with citations. I wrote a lot of research papers in high school.
As far as learning from this assignment, it made me think more about gender bias and what it means.
I think the most interesting part of my essay are the examples I related to myself.
My writing process really made me think about what I thought on the issues. The peer review really helped me on the paper because it told me what I still needed to do and should me mistakes I had on spelling and grammer. The part I had the most difficulty with was writing my thesis. I couldn't forcus on the main point. The part that came easy to me was the comparing men and women.I would say my most interesting thing about my paper was the examples I used toward the end of my eassy. I think the problem I have now with my writing is forcusing on the main idea instead of writing what comes to mind. I also think I need to follow/pay attention to the directions more.
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