Remember when I said that I thought writing my draft would be easy because of my outline? I was wrong. When I sat down to write my draft on Sunday, I had the hardest time articulating my ideas. I know people say that getting started is the hardest part but after that it gets better. Well everything was the hardest part for me. Even with my outline as a guideline, the order that I put my points in didn't seem to make sense. All of my information could go in different parts of my paper depending on which approach I took.
I decided that I should just follow my outline for now so that I could get all of my ideas onto the paper. And that since it was just a draft, I could always go back and change it up. I do have a few questions about citing that I would like to address in class, but overall with my first draft written, I feel pretty confident about this paper.
I was in the same situation! I realized that I needed to find a way to relate my topic more to the present, instead of just rehashing events from the past in my paper. (I didn't even use my original outline.) But, I am actually happy that I had to reorganize everything because I feel like it just made me a better writer.
ReplyDeleteTerri, make sure you come in and talk to me if you are struggling. This should be a challenge, but I am here to support you if it's too hard.
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