Wednesday, October 24, 2007

My feelings on our looooonnnnnnngggggg writing procedure!!

So, we have a paper due tomorrow, and it seems as if we had to do 1,000 drafts! (lol) I put a lot of time into my first draft, but I knew it could use a little improvising! Little did I know that it would take A LOT of improvising. After i brought my paper to class, I was expecting for my fellow classmates to pure edit it, and they did. So I took my group's advise and fixed the things that they said I should. I went home and retyped what I thought would be my near perfect FINAL draft. Feeling good about my overall work, I walked to class (in the cold rain) expecting to hand my paper in and receive a good grade. I sat down, took out my paper, and waited for Mrs. Sumner Winter to say okay class bring your papers to me. But, those words never came. She told us to take out the copy that we were supposed to print out in landscape style. We were assigned to devour our own papers line by line. I had a couple problems with this, and I was happy to find out that I wasnt alone. Since so many people had troubles she said okay, I want everybody to give me your first sentence and we're going to break it down phrase by phrase. So the first person called out their first sentence to her. The class started tearing down the sentence word by word! I was thinking OH LAWD I HOPE MY SENTENCE GOES BETTER THAN THAT. I begin to count the people in front of me in my mind. One, Two...then me. We finished up on the first person, and as I reached down in my backpack....... "Mauricus read us your first sentence," came out of her mouth. My heart skipped a beat! I took a deep breath and read my sentence aloud silently trying to convince myself that it was a good one. So the long, dreadful devourING of my sentence begin! Not one time did it cross my mind that I would have to change so much in one sentence! Taking the constructive criticism, I wrote down my new sentence and put my essay away. This little event helped me a lot. Although I was tired of doing new drafts, I knew this would only make me a better writer. So tomorrow we finally turn in our real FINAL COPY! WISH ME LUCK!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU MEAN WITH ALL THOSE DAMN DRAFTS. LOL. But in the end, I would have to say that it did help a lot.

Bekah said...

Haha tell me about it! I'm sooo glad I didn't have to say my first sentence out loud...there wouldn't have been anything left after she was through! But that did put the fear of the Lord in me and I went home and tore it up myself. Well I guess that would be the fear of Wendy Sumner-Winter lol.