Before completing the exercise, were you a skeptic or believer that disassembling your essay (as described in Ex. 5.3) would be beneficial?
I was skeptical when it came to disassembling my essay, I wasn't sure how it would be beneficial at all. Personally, going into this exercise, I thought it was all about the big picture and didn't care how much each paragraph related to the thesis.
How did you feel about disassembling your essay? Nervous? Excited? Ambivalent? Worried? Determined?
I was concerned that this assignment would leave me with nothing but a thesis statement. Confidence in my first draft wasn't high and left me feeling worried about what would be left
What was the outcome of completing this exercise? Did your essay survive mostly in-tact? Did you discover significant changes are needed? Did you have more paragraphs in your "Keep" or in your "Discard" pile? Did you realize a new way to organize your paragraphs?
I was surprised by the outcome of this exercise. My essay is mostly intact. I don't need a whole lot of change to my essay. My essay has a decent flow however some rearranging is necessary.
Overall, what did you learn from this exercise?
I learned that essay restructuring can be very beneficial to rethinking my essay. In addition, it is very important to see how each paragraph relates to the thesis statement.
Zach it sound like to you pretty well stuck to your thesis sentence which is really good. I really like what you said about how each paragraph relates to the thesis statement. That is exactly what I am learning to do right now. All I can say from a learning student like me is keep up and good work and I am finding that constant revision really find mistakes that you might have missed the first time.
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