Honestly, I believe I barely passed this essay. As a piece of my writing, it's poorly written. I have plenty of excuses for the formatting of this, stress from PSATs, scholarships, illness, the habitual Jane Schaeffer method and the like; but, none of these should have hindered my performance so. During the languorous two weeks of this essay I grew bored of it and only put in partial effort as the deadline drew closer. When I should have been working on this essay I, instead, started to do all in my ability to not to the essay until the last day - a time when I, at least, felt some interest again.
My writing philosophy has been consistent, but has many flaws. These flaws I've seen before, such as my restive nature towards writing. And, for this essay, my largest mistake would be in the failure to plan and follow through on the plans I did make. These flaws usually pertain to my short stories and novels, for naught but few have been completed due to my more direct focus on the present and trifles which accompany it. Instead of my normal draft per night, this essay took a lethargic pace and had a mere two rough drafts before being finalized.
There is but one major difference betwixt college and high school writing that I've come to notice. This is that you must gather, validate, and paraphrase all of your sources. Dissimilar from high school, in which only textbooks were the source, college level writing comes from a variety of sources which one must gather. Therein comes the challenge: an argument with the basal of critical, and diverse, information. Most definitely, the lack of Jane Schaeffer protocol in writing. Albeit, the method provides a helpful outline on which to write upon, with variations of it to be used conclusively, college allows students on a free-for-all that created a further individuality in each work and a more developmental argument.
For my next essay I know, for a definite fact, one thing I will do differently. I will not adhere to the in-class schedule. Following such a regulation resulted in my boredom and my shunning of the essay until the due date. Also, I will put more commentary with each concrete detail (similar to the Jane Schaeffer method: 2 cm to 1 cd) so that I can actually present the argument instead of a bunch of bland facts strung together with the most minute ways of connecting with the overall argument. Moreover, I will be sure that my concluding sentences and topic sentences flow together nicely in a way that doesn't feel jagged and inconclusive, offering nice transitions. Peradventure I should look over old essays for a basal idea on what I should now do in regards to my writing. But, I know I definitely need to keep myself on top of things this time around.
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