blog 37

I have no clue how well I did on my analytical research paper. I feel pretty good about it but I also felt pretty good about my first and second drafts and I did not get the grades that I was hoping for on those assignments. My introduction and supporting paragraphs were pretty strong and I think I had a good amount of evidence but I’m worried about my conclusion, as well as the solidity of my real world connection and my thesis statement. The final copy of my analytical research paper doesn’t look anything like my first two drafts, I completely changed the direction of my paper and because of that I don’t really know how good my argument is. The first two drafts were helpful in the sense that they improved my writing ability but it was my understanding that the purpose of those drafts was to help get feedback from the teacher on our argument, real world connection and other key pieces of our paper but that feedback isn’t relevant if you don’t use the same argument in the final paper and I think that was the case for a lot of people, myself included. Wow that was a long sentence. I do feel a little better knowing that we can revise the paper if we aren’t satisfied with our grade but I really don’t want to have to work on this more. Especially because I’m going to be a lot busier in the coming weeks and I don’t want to have to add this to my list of things I need to accomplish.