Reflection on Essay 2

I must admit, I haven't made any progress from the first essay of this quarter to the second essay. The format was too different for me to actually grasp and edit and apply my normal philosophies it gives. Unfortunately, all I did was "vomit," if you will, the body of the argument and I was unable to, either discretely or conspicuously, state my thesis. Perhaps I did, but I can't tell from the format. In this sense, I can't actually evaluate myself, because I can't evaluate the format - due to it's completely foreign nature - and thus cannot adequately give a grade to myself.

As partners, Sergey and I never really worked to edit. We wrote once and left it at that. I'm not sure if we both just wanted to avoid conflict or didn't quite understand how exactly we were to go about dissecting and recreating the essay in the form we choose. Originally, we were going to go about letters, a simple way, and were guided to do blogs, and, at that point, I believe we lost either interest or comprehension and didn't want to ruin the statements and rebuttals by changing the original posts and the like. We both did minimalistic effort, it seemed, on the essay, despite its importance. And I know we could have done much more than have our rough draft our final draft.

Sergey's work ethic was strong and we were able to have sections to reply to and replies posted within a day. Sadly, Sergey's language is much different than the language I put into the essay, and our different views never met on the issue and we left it at the minimum and went from there.

We avoided conflict, as a duo. We worked well together because we stuck to the most basic ideas and went from there. Our conversations were short, but we didn't complicate matters more than they needed to be. I'm afraid though, in our confusion, that we didn't quite get across what we wanted for each post and we didn't affirm the best way we could portray the essay. Instead, we took the teacher's suggestion, thinking it would work out well and with none too much extra time involved. Unfortunately, such thinking backfired and it might prove a failing grade for us.