In class on Wednesday, I liked that we got to pick apart our successes and struggles while writing WP1. Although it seems obvious, it is really important to isolate and put into words, what exactly you’re struggling with, so that you know what to focus on. If your struggles remain an arbitrary idea in the back of your head that you never define and single out, they could end up not getting addressed or improved.
In addition, it is important to single out your successes. Often times, I feel that people enjoy doing what they are good at. For this reason, without singling out what is already working, students like myself could definitely end up just working on something that does not need as much attention or improvement.
I feel similarly to person 8 and 9 in the journal responses about the successes/struggles because I also liked the topic I picked, and found it interesting to write about. This seemed to be common among the journal responses. The journal responses varied more in the struggles category. It seems like everybody is pretty good at just picking out the conventions that their genre uses, but that analysis can be difficult for people, and so can the intros and conclusions. The aspect I had the most trouble with was organization. For some reason, I did not think it would make a good essay to structure it using one example per body paragraph. The example essay that we looked at in class did structure their essay this way, however I found it a little boring and flat. I chose to instead structure mine around the conventions. I hope it turns out okay, because I do not bring up every example in every paragraph. I did find it a little hard to meet the page limit without sounding repetitive, because we were only allowed to use 3 examples. But overall, I think my WP1 is going well.
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