Bryan McGrath
Journal 9
Revisions
After I completed my draft I looked over it many times and questioned my own thoughts regularly everytime I read through it. What kept on drawing me and making me question the most about myself and my writing was my relevant quotes surrounds my ideas and how to explain them better. For each of the quotes I put in I had a hard time explaining them since in the past I would end the idea there and leave the quote just dangling in my paper. After many attempts I finally was able to finalize my thought process on the explanations of my selected quotes and felt happy with what I had. The drafting and revision process for me atleast was monumentally different back in high school. We never had days in class where we were able to work on our essays or even have that time to ask my teacher’s questions. It was always here is the day it is due we will not talk about it until after you hand it in. The luxury of having the ability to work on this paper in class and ask questions I feel make my paper that much better in my own eyes. The peer editing also opened my eyes to new ideas that others had about my paper in order to make it better that I used the majority of. I feel also that being able to look in-depth on somebody else’s work made myself take a closer look at my own with the same purpose as to suggest different views that may fit what I am trying to say better. I approached this paper with everything I had. I had never been ahead of the writing due date and for this I was and I believe it made my paper that much better which I genuinely expected out of this class.
