journal 13

I would say that essay number four was one of the toughest ones that we have written this year, purely just because I have never written an essay like this. my process of writing this essay was going back through my two pieces of literature that I chose and reading through them again and annotating them with a little bit more detail than I did the first go around. I would also say that this one was a little bit more difficult for me to write, personally, because it came at the end of the year heading towards finals and my time got a bit more crunched, so I wasn’t able to spend as much time as I allotted for the other essays on this one. It was also a bit more difficult because I had to constantly go back-and-forth between my writing and the readings, and it was no longer as opinionated, in the subjective sense, as the others. in retrospect, I should’ve allotted more time in order to write this essay. I wasn’t able to peer review it, and that also kind of messed up my process a little bit, and, if anything, it has further strengthened my opinion that peer review is very helpful and highly crucial to improving your essay. my final product was definitely not my best work, but I learned a lot from writing the essay, as again, I’ve never written an essay like this nor have I ever been really taught how to write an essay like this. In my English class in high school, we mainly wrote rhetorical analysis, so don’t get me wrong this was very refreshing to write it just wasn’t what I’m used to writing.