Writer's Journal # 12

“Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.”(Indira Gandhi) Doing talk to activity helped me clearly see what I needed to do in my essay and yes it’s the basic little thing but it helped me remember what I needed to do. To be able to have to think from so many different perspectives really helped me see more and more mistakes. The one I feel that helped me the most was the one where I did what I liked about it and what I didn't like about but I did it from my reader’s perspective. When doing it from my professor's perspective I just used the syllabus that we are supposed to use to go off of to see it from their point of view because it's what they require us to have in the essay.

What stands out the most to me with this exercise would have to be just having to see it from so many different points of view. The dislike was hard because I'm over here judging

myself. That was hard but the hardest was definitely thinking like a professor. The changes that definitely need to be changed in my essay are definitely the grammar issues and just adding pictures to make it more interesting. I need to make my essay stand out more. I need to make it understandable for the readers and interesting. Mainly my essay needs some grammar checks and is organized a little better.

What I will do to get all of this done is I will read over and get all of the grammatical errors first. I feel going through and getting the grammatical errors fixed is easier because then I am not trying to organize the essay and fix the grammar mistakes at the same time. After fixing all of the grammar errors I will then go through and make sure the essay is clear from the beginning and to the end. After I read it I will ask a friend of mine to read it and make sure they like it and get their opinions on pictures for the essay. Getting this second opinion will help me in the long run because it's someone on the outside. Then after that, I will then read it again and make sure it’s good turn-in.