After writing my first paper of the semester, I have seen vast differences from what I would’ve written in high school. First of all, I was not allowed to write arguments that reflected my opinions and experiences at my old school. So, this is a new process for me. What was most helpful was annotating my documents and highlighting appropriately. Something that I found slightly unhelpful, was that we spent so much lot of time on global revisions, that I personally felt like I did not get to polish my material as much as I had wanted. I am satisfied with how much of detail that I had put into my experience throughout the essay, however, I do wish I could’ve put in more connections as I went along. I had gone back and added some connections, but it was rather difficult connecting it all in with the rest of my text. Therefore, I realize that this is my first paper of the year, and I will work to improve my growth among the future essays that are to come.

Throughout this project, we have used understanding in order to explain the quotes that we had chosen for our essay. Then, we applied and analyzed by relating our own personal experience with the text. Lastly, overall we created a piece of writing and a script that included planning, structure, and producing (podcast+essay). This brought all of the elements together into one whole functioning story.