English 325: full composition process
This page contains my upper level writing requirement as well as the full composition process for that piece. I chose to include this piece for the full composition process because it is the most complete one I have and it is also the piece of writing I am most proud of. We did not do peer editing in this class, so there are no comments from that aspect. For this paper, I went to office hours (something I have done roughly a total of 5 or 6 times in four years) and to Sweetland for guidance. I remember my 325 GSI telling the class that if you were really a writer, this is the paper you would get an A on and I am proud to say that it was my first A in that class. He threw down the gauntlet and for once, I accepted the challenge to write something really quality and not just fulfill an assignment.
In the drafts, I struggled with what the theme of the paper would be and how all of my seemingly conflicting ideas ultimately fit together. My intro stays fairly consistent over the drafts, but they are major, substantive revisions and developments from draft 1 to 3. This was a piece that I could not get out of my head once I started working on it: I thought about it on the treadmill, I thought about it in lectures for other classes, and I thought about it before I went to sleep. I particularly enjoyed the challenge of this composition process because it came junior year when I was ear-deep in science courses. This English department course demanded I think in a different way and use parts of my brain I hadn't in quite some time.
In the drafts, I struggled with what the theme of the paper would be and how all of my seemingly conflicting ideas ultimately fit together. My intro stays fairly consistent over the drafts, but they are major, substantive revisions and developments from draft 1 to 3. This was a piece that I could not get out of my head once I started working on it: I thought about it on the treadmill, I thought about it in lectures for other classes, and I thought about it before I went to sleep. I particularly enjoyed the challenge of this composition process because it came junior year when I was ear-deep in science courses. This English department course demanded I think in a different way and use parts of my brain I hadn't in quite some time.
Brainstorming | |
File Size: | 18 kb |
File Type: | docx |
Draft 1 | |
File Size: | 20 kb |
File Type: | docx |
Draft 2 | |
File Size: | 23 kb |
File Type: | docx |
Draft 3 | |
File Size: | 29 kb |
File Type: | docx |
Final Draft | |
File Size: | 30 kb |
File Type: | docx |