I’m not very pleased with the way that my essays turned out. There are so many things that I wish I would have done. Like taken more time on them, revised them and then revised them and then revised them once more. I started them too late for that. I am also bad with grammar and I know that: spelling isn’t really a forte either. So yes my paper had a lot of grammatical errors and I spent a lot of time with my best friend (spell check). Even after all that, the one thing that I did find? Was my voice.
You can write essays using big words that people like me have to look up. You can also write super long essays that are so boring no one wants to read them but hey you might impress your professor with all of the time you spent writing a 10 page paper. And yes for a while there I did want to impress professor Mock with my writing. (I definitely didn’t) but what I found out is that if you can relate to people, the more interesting you make your essay, the easier it is to read, the more that they like it, the better grade you get. Not that grades are everything… *cough* *cough* (that’s a joke). What I found out is that its about relating to people, and yes I am not sure that I will ever write a research paper as well as most of you probably have but I can tell one heck of a story.
And I guess that I am pleased with that. Well….. maybe if I would have found this out sooner I would have gotten a better grade in the class… Oh well….