Project 2 Post Write

To:       M MacKnight

From:   ______________________________

Re:       ______________________________ (title)

[Your writer's postwrite should prepare me to evaluate your project. Tell me about what you learned in the course of this project, about the strengths and weaknesses of your argument analysis, or about your writing process. Try to use the drafts or posts in your process blog as evidence for your claims. Also, be sure to identify what I can help you with in my response to your work.]

Project two was a lot more challenging for me as a writer because I am better with summaries and writing stories rather than writing an analysis.  In the past, I haven’t had much experience with writing an analysis and therefore it was something new and different for me.  Although it may not have been my strongest piece, I did enjoy writing it because I was interested in the topic I was writing about, which was the abortion article.  Since the class was short on time when we went to do our writing workshops, it made it a bit more difficult for me when I went to go edit my paper.  Only one person read my paper when usually two or three people read and edit my first draft.  Also, in class we only had twenty minutes to read and write comments on each other’s papers.  This made things even more difficult because time could not be taken to go through the drafts thoroughly.  However, I learned a lot from writing this analysis.  At first, when assigned the project I was very confused as to what an analysis actually entailed of.  In addition to being confused, when I went to write my first draft, the professor was unable to give a detailed explanation of what was expected in these papers and it made it more difficult for me to write a paper that met all the criteria.  All in all, I eventually learned what the difference between a summary and an analysis was.  An analysis explains more deeply into the article of writing and explains what the author meant when he or she spoke of an idea.  I was unaware of this before the project had been explained.  However, once I had a good idea of what an analysis was, writing my final paper was a lot easier.  Although I had many weaknesses for this project I do feel as though I had one strength.  My one strength was that I had a lot of knowledge in the subject of abortion because it is talked about a lot in my family.  This allowed me to be able to connect with the author of the writing piece about abortion, which eventually helped when it came to writing my paper.  I really enjoyed writing this paper and although it may not have been my best, I think I captured the idea of an analysis pretty well.  To help me with your response to my work I would say explain to me where I could go into more detail about some of the texts I took out from the article to make my paper an even better analysis.