After reading multiple peer-reviews and meeting with Raymond in regards to my re-purposed essay, I felt prepared to make the appropriate changes to my essay. The feedback was constant in terms of my strengths and weaknesses. Overall, it was articulated that my essay was not appropriate for any other kind of assignment. This was the goal of the paper, so I was pleased with this feedback. The piece that I repurposed was an essay for Communications 102 about political advertising. My re-purposed was a “walk through” of my original essay, and incorporated feedback that my GSI gave me.
My revision took this a step further, and added an analysis and summary at the end of the paper. This summary explained why I was so disappointed with the assignment, and what else I hoped to get out of it but unfortunately did not. Mainly, I focused on the disgust that I felt towards the topic of politics in general. I claimed that this assignment further confused me on my feelings of disgust: was it towards politics or political advertising? After writing this paper, I am still unsure of the answer.
This paper was unique in the sense that my revisions only took place at the very end of the paper. Usually I would have had to do a lot more re-working in every aspect of the paper, but the feedback that I received assured me that I took the correct approach. As much disgust that I feel towards the assignment and paper that I produced, I am also grateful for the opportunity to examine it with a critical eye. It is not often that I revisit past assignments and discuss what I did and did not like about it. Writing a paper like this was an interesting learning experience, but was surprisingly natural. I felt like my voice was very present throughout the paper, which is unfortunately rare in past papers that I have written.