Journal 2

I think that between the first and final draft I improved the most in connecting my writing back to my thesis. I feel like my first draft was vague and disconnected. In my final draft, all of my paragraphs connected back to my thesis. My essay got stronger when I connected everything back to a central argument.

I learned two important things throughout this process. The first being that having multiple drafts improves my writing and takes away some of the stress that I associated with writing for school. The second being that the conferences definitely improved my writing because it gave me a list of things to improve on.

If I had another week, I would go back and make certain paragraphs get to the point. I feel like my writing is strongest in the first couple of pages. There are probably ways that I could improve the structure of certain sentences.

No, I wouldn’t rewrite the prompt if I would. This is probably the most interesting writing assignment I have ever had. I enjoyed the story and movie that I chose to analyze. I would maybe have changed the word count. I thought two thousand words was going to be a five-paragraph essay. I was definitely wrong.