http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/pulling-hair-out
I sent my
paper to the online tutor at Yavapai College.
I received my feedback last night, and it was very helpful. As far as my writing process, it was pretty
much what came to mind, what stuck out most from the novel White Noise, then went through those areas of the book to clarify
my thoughts. As I thought the fear of
death motif would not be too difficult, I found I was more difficult since
there was so much information.
Since I don’t usually write papers,
I can’t say that I revise. I have made
small revisions to my essays in this class, however I find that I change too
much when I revise and make my papers worse.
Benefits to revising are that you can add something that you may have
missed the first time writing, therefore making a better paper.
After receiving my feedback from the
online tutor, I found it very helpful since someone from the outside read it
and never read the actual book, only other essays. She did agree that it is a difficult book for
her, which made me feel better, not so alone.
The main revision I need to make on
my paper is to look at each beginning and ending sentence of each section,
asking the questions “Did I mention the significance of fear of death? Did I relate it to the whole novel?” I am hoping this helps to make my paper
better, and I hope I don’t change too much up to mess it up, not that it’s
perfect…
Darcy, great blog this week. I loved the picture you used. Very appropriate for where we are in the semester. I totally feel the picture. I am glad to hear the feedback you received was beneficial. I also received beneficial feedback about my paper today. I met with our teacher and she offered some good direction. I was a little worried going into the meeting thinking she might not like the paper and I would have to start over, but I was relieved with overall minor changes and sensible changes. We are almost there. Hang in there. Good job this week.
ReplyDeleteThose are great pointers, to ask those questions before and after the beginning of paragraphs.. I never thought about doing that! Thanks :)
ReplyDeleteI wish I had taken advantage of the tutor. It sounds like that experience was helpful for you. Some people pursue perfection endlessly and just drive themselves crazy. Even a perfect score wouldn't necessarily make an essay perfect (though it would be nice). Always good to feel like you are not alone in this.
ReplyDeleteI like the pointer about the beginning and ending sentence of the paragraph, I will definitely go through and make sure that I have done this. Thanks for that. I have felt like pulling my hair out over this essay, perfect picture :) Great job and thanks.
ReplyDeleteAngie
I know how you feel with regards to the difficulties of revising your own paper. However the "helpful-ness" of my online tutor was less than helpful with any tips or anything other than grammatical errors. I don't normally revise all that much either because I feel like when I do, all that I am really doing is contradicting what I wrote the first time.
ReplyDeleteI didn't take advantage of the tutoring and really wish i had so thats awesome that you did. I get where your coming from about how sometimes when you self revise you make the paper worse. I am the same way I start to think about it too much and complicate something that didn't need to be complicated. but it seems like your doing good =]
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