The Blog of a Pre-Med Student with a Writer's Brain

Process Reflection

Granted, the style of revisions for this class differs from my previous English classes, but I was surprised by how much I wanted to just start over when I was revising.  I began the revision by trying to take the original and insert/delete sections to better fit some of the advice received during office hours, and after about five minutes of that I just decided to start on a blank slate.  That didn’t mean I didn’t take some parts of my original and put them into the revision, but I honestly have never really just started over when doing an assignment revision before.  Given the size of the assignment, this actually seemed much easier than past revisions.

However, the revision process still presented its own difficulties.  For one, I took notes as to what I needed to do, but they were not entirely detailed enough and I wasn’t actually quite sure what I needed to include in my revised version.  For two (?), I wasn’t actually sure if the revision was supposed to stay within the original word-count restraints as the original.  I think the hardest time I had was trying to include everything that needed to be included without bloating my paper beyond what it was “supposed” to be.  As a result, I found myself leaving a few things out.

Additionally, I’m still not entirely sure if I am making my point clearly enough.  The whole idea of a “process” is very much a personal and abstract thing and I feel like I need to make it more clear to the reader just what exactly I mean; however, I don’t know if this is more a self-demeaning issue or if it’s actually real.  I would like to get an outside opinion on what exactly it seems like my paper is saying and if it all ties together in a relatively coherent, cogent manner.

Lastly, I can never tell if my metaphorical characters tie in well enough to make sense without breaking the flow of the paper.  This is another thing I want an outside opinion on.  I want to include them (as a means of broadening the scope to more than just writers) but I don’t want to feel like the paper is constantly breaking from thought to bring in outside examples.  I want these to feel like a natural inclusion to the argument.

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