Issues from the Letters

Issues from the Letters:

1. conclusions/concluding paragraphs
2. Many people said a critical thinking strategy they employed was "explaining quotes." This isn't a strategy we went over in class.
3. paraphrasing
4. People revealed problems getting "stuck" or "overthinking" during the introduction
5. the problem of "repetition"


Highlights:

"To be honest with you my writing process was endless. With what I started out with at least 50% of it has changed over the period. Everyday or every other day I would edit sentences, change words, move paragraphs and subtract paragraphs also. It seemed endless. At times I got frustrated because I wanted to make my writing stand out, while keeping it simple and sticking to the topic. So what I found was easiest was writing each paragraph like we did in class following the same guidelines. Instead of doing the entire essay, I found that when I did the essay paragraph by paragraph I had stronger topic sentences, and more organized details and somewhat of a better flow to each paragraph. Throughout this process I also made a lot of minor errors...

I worked with two other people for Peer Review and it went great. The two people found a lot of small errors which were important. One helped me fix two of my run ons. And another helped me establish a new idea to my thesis that made a world of sense to me."

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"My essay evolved a lot over the past three weeks. I had to change my opening paragraph a lot. I had to put a brief summary about what the reader was going to be reading about and also give them a little information about the author. Being that I kept on adding more information and discussing more topics, I would go back to my first paragraph and make sure that its been told that I was going to be discussing that topic."