essay 2 draft reflection

  • What are you proud of in this draft? What’s working well?
  • More broadly, what do you think your strengths as a writer are? Why?
  • What are the most important issues to address in revising Essay 2? Why?
  • What are your goals for revising? (Share your 2 “radical revision” steps you’ll take, too.)

In this draft I’m proud of writing about a topic that really interests me. The picture I referred to was very upsetting to see but a good write. The relatability of the picture is working well. My strengths as a writer is that I enjoy writing from within and in this class I can write from within. In my revision the most important issues to address are more details of how the picture relates to the writing. My goals for revising is to use more details from the photograph. Two of my radical revisions are to examine the photograph in more details and to use more details from the writing.

2.4 Reflection

  • What are you proud of in this draft? What’s working well?

I hope somehow i created something engaging. Hopefully the claims, evidence and thesis make sense. I think that my analysis of the object and its connection with Daggett’s essay was successful.

  • More broadly, what do you think your strengths as a writer are? Why?

With some combination of pure luck and intuition my sentences look “polished”. I’m also successful with analyzing facts, and texts.

  • What are the most important issues to address in revising Essay 2? Why?

Eliminating the “lard overload”. Rearranging the paragraphs. Shortening the sentences. Focusing more on lens analysis instead of rhetorical analysis. Getting rid of parts which sound “weird”.

It’s going to make a revision more solid and “to the point”.

  • What are your goals for revising? (Share your 2 “radical revision” steps you’ll take, too.)

The goals are:

Clear paragraphs, tightly connecting claims to the evidence.

Radical revision number 2 and 9.

2.4: Reflection for Revision

I am very proud of the fact that I managed to stay on course in terms of the goals of the assignment, sometimes after writing a paper I realized that I did not accomplish the intention of the paper. I feel one of my strengths is being concise and getting straight to the point, because when I was trying to reduce the wordiness of my essay I felt that a good majority was very clear and concise. I feel that I need to expand on my analysis of my evidence throughout my essay, this was made very clear to me once I reread my essay a few days later. Two radical revision techniques I intend to use are going to a place where I need to say more and expanding, revision number one, and revision number six, writing a summary and incorporating that into my essay. Although I do have a summary already I feel that I can expand on it.

2:4 Essay 2 Reflection

  • What are you proud of in this draft? What’s working well?

I’m most proud in how I put down a lot of thoughts that worked to my thesis.   I’m also proud that my creative writing skills seem to be still coming through

  • More broadly, what do you think your strengths as a writer are? Why?

I think I have a good command of the English language, verb usage and I write expressively.

  • What are the most important issues to address in revising Essay 2? Why?

To lengthen my thoughts and make more connections that address the “So What”

  • What are your goals for revising? (Share your 2 “radical revision” steps you’ll take, too.)

I’d like to question and deepen the flip side of the thesis for a brief moment.  I’d also like to show more real connections between the essay and media I choose.

Paragraph Revision for Essay 2

Original:

Most of the “deniers” of climate change are privileged white males from the West. According to Daggett, “In other words, fossil fuels matter to new authoritarian movements in the West because of profits and consumer lifestyles, but also because privileged subjectivities are oil-soaked and coal-dusted. It is no coincidence that white, conservative American men – regardless of  class – appear to be among the most vociferous climate deniers, as well as leading fossil fuel proponents in the West,” (28). This is because it is these white men that profit the most out of fossil fuel and oil consumed by the people. It is through living blindly to make more wealth and cash flow in the economy that these people have turned their backs to the dying animals and starving people around the world that only receive harm from the financial growth of these greedy people.

Revised:

Most of the people that deny climate change are privileged white males from the West. According to Daggett, “In other words, fossil fuels matter to new authoritarian movements in the West because of profits and consumer lifestyles, but also because privileged subjectivities are oil-soaked and coal-dusted. It is no coincidence that white, conservative American men – regardless of  class – appear to be among the most vociferous climate deniers, as well as leading fossil fuel proponents in the West,” (28). This shows that white men run and profit the most from the oil and fossil fuel industries. It is the drive to make more wealth and cash flow in the economy that made these people turn their backs to the dying animals and starving people around the world that only receive harm from the financial growth of these greedy people.

Reflect:

I changed the sentences I wrote to be more straightforward by removing unnecessary words and phrases. Now the paragraph sounds more straight to the point. This wasn’t challenging because when I wrote this paragraph I just added information but when I revised it, I was able to catch some writing errors.

Jazmine 2.4

  • What are you proud of in this draft? What’s working well?

I am proud of the fact that I was actually able to formulate a clear and precise claim, that is not confusing and states exactly what I want to say.

  • More broadly, what do you think your strengths as a writer are? Why?

I think my strengths would be describing things because its the one place that you can be wordy without being too wordy. There is always room for more details when explaining something visual.

  • What are the most important issues to address in revising Essay 2? Why?

To maintain the focus of my claim throughout my essay while supporting it with details.

  • What are your goals for revising? (Share your 2 “radical revision” steps you’ll take, too.)

To complete a strong, clear and precise lens analysis without adding too much information or losing my focus.

Post 2.4:

I managed to use the author’s take on misogyny to conduct a lens analysis of an advertisement for a king kong movie. That worked well and will be looking forward to receiving feedback that may be helpful in drafting the final paper. My strengths as a writer include the ability to construct sentences with ease. This is because  I’m never out of words and no matter how difficult the task may be, I always find a way to write the required information. The most important issue to draft in the essay might be the use of more specific information from the texts to analyze the advert. This is because I feel I didn’t use lots of specific information from the given texts. My goals for revising are to produce a perfect paper that meets all the requirements for the lens analysis and also take into consideration the peer/instructor’s comments regarding my work.

Post 2.3:

Second Paragraph:

First and foremost, in the second-last paragraph of “Petro-masculinity”, Dagget proposes to follow Kate Manne’s belief of misogyny as a set of practices that enforces the norms of patriarchal rule. The author says that if misogyny’s perceived as a policing practice, the focus changes to, “detailing the suffering of its targets, making room for structural as well as direct manifestations of violence. Using Manne’s logic of misogyny, it becomes far easier to recognize, and contest, the pattern of omnipresent aggression experienced by women and others deemed to be gender deviants.” (19).

Revised

Dagget proposes to follow Kate Manne’s belief of misogyny as a set of practices that enforces the norms of patriarchal rule in the book “petromasculinity”. He reckons that using Kate’s logic makes it easier to recognize the pattern of omnipresent aggression experienced by women.

Reflection:

Chose to change it up so as to eliminate redundancy and simplify the structure.

Paragraph: The picture in the Guardian article is an outline sketch of how the day to day activities would be in this forest city.  At the center of the photo we see people in a park-like environment riding their bikes, fixing their bikes, socializing and socially gathering.  On the ground, it may look like a normal city scenery,  when we look up from the ground level to the top of the picture we discover that the buildings are all covered with green, this is not glass these are living plants and in the air we see flocks of birds flying, the air at this level is so pure and free we see people in sky carts travelling from sky scraper to skyscraper. This is thus the basis of the article, in the Guardian entitled “’Forest cities’: the radical plan to save China from air pollution”

Revised: Published in the Guardian was a picture showing a detailed sketch of how daily activities would be in a forest city.  At the center of the photo people are in a park, riding and fixing their bikes, socializing and socially gathering.  On the ground, it is a normal city scenery, when we look to the top, we discover the green buildings. Not green colored glass instead we view living plants and flocks of birds flying. Surrounded by pure air, we see people in sky carts traveling to and from skyscrapers. The basis of the article, in the Guardian entitled “’Forest cities’: the radical plan to save China from air pollution”

Reflection: I believe I had viewed some redundancies,  Reminiscing it was just a few hours before I had to submit the draft,  and reading the essay by “Jane the Student” had me feeling like Tarzan Boy, paragraph to paragraph. From here I go trying to read another of the Essay2 by student and probably another read of the marvelous work of “Jane the Student”