Blog #12

Self-Check:
1. I answered the prompt as thoroughly as possible in the time allotted.
2. I do have a clear thesis that explains what the Pink Flamingo represents when taken in view of America's society as a whole, but it seems a little rushed. I think this may be because I felt like I started writing my essay later than everyone else.
3. Yes, my essay is very unified in theme- I always stuck to what the story of the Pink Flamingo is trying to say, until the very end, when I broadened the topic.
4. In my first body paragraph, I talked about what the story of the Pink Flamingo was trying to say about American society and its faults. I made sure to stay on this topic and only write about things that were important to the topic.
5. I made sure to use as many quotations as possible (there were a huge range of possible quotations in the essay) and I made sure the quotes flowed well with the sentence structure I was trying to create. Actually, there was one time when there were so many relevant quotes, I had to trim it down to just two or three.

Reflection:
1. I felt that my body paragraphs went very well with this timed write because, by the time I reached these paragraphs, I had gotten the ball rolling, I knew what I wanted to write, and I knew how to write it. The sentences just flowed onto the paper easily.
2. My intro and conclusions suffered because I started too late and I didn't have enough time to put a huge amount of thought into them. I am worried that I may have dabbled a bit into cliche with my conclusion.
3. If I had more time, I would make sure to thoroughly vett my introduction and conclusion paragraphs, check for grammatical errors, and read through my finished essay at least once more. Basically, I would do the editing that I didn't have much time to do in class.
4. I felt that the orginazation of my essay stuck fairly well to what I had planned prior to writing my essay. This is where I really made up time, because, although I started a little slow, I knew exactly what I wanted to write and where to put it.
5. As I was writing and analyzing the structure of the text, I realized how much structure can affect the feel and flow of an essay, so I made sure to write about the structure's affect.
6. I will make sure to structure my ideas and organization before I start writing, because that helped me budget my time wisely. But I will also make sure to go back and read what I write, especially the introduction and conclusion, because I don't want to have to resort to cliche in my essays.