Learning outcome #1
For this framing statement I decided to chose my paper #2. I felt like I did a good job at making corrections in the sentence format and helping better present my idea. For starters my first few drafts consisted of a lot of run-on sentences and didn’t exactly flow. I was able to restore it by adding commas. On a more global level I felt like I was able to revise and help talk about what they say and then from there turn it into something that I say to help strengthen my argument. I also made some mistakes when citing my quotes. I put parentheses in the wrong place when it came to citing the quotes. In David Foster Wallace’s essay “Consider the Lobster” I put the parentheses before the quote instead of after it. Livy was able to point this out to me so I was able to revise it and make the right corrections. I also forgot the page numbers on some quotes in my early draft, but thanks to Kenny pointing it out to me I was able to go back into the passages and correct this easy mistake. On a bigger scale there were a few times when I would make a good argument, but didn’t really expand on it to strengthen it and help bring the main point of the paper to life. The last thing I noticed from reviewing the earlier drafts to this paper was I didn’t do a great job of introducing the passage in my introduction paragraph. This lead to confusion through my paper and it not flowing correctly.