ERRORS AND REFLECTIONS ( MIDTERM)

Reflecting On My Writing (midterm)

Examining our individual writings process can be challenging, it is at least for me. For no matter how detach I am to the subject of them, they are my babies, ideas and arguments that required massive neural work, thousands of synapses, to come into existence. I am aware that in some places down the road they become foggy and unclear, leaving the reader wondering for a paragraph or two. And it is precisely that which I’ve worked on the hardest for the revision project, maybe in comparison to the first paper the difference is not as great, but looking at the final draft of the second paper,- which, I decided to revise- the improvement is there.  The thesis and arguments in them self have not been precisely the problem so far, it has been matter of delivery. While the thesis is clear from the beginning and the arguments support it, sometimes I wonder off leaving the arguments hanging.

As previously mentioned I’m not keen on self evaluation, and no matter how many times I look over the last two months, I find progress. I can’t say that the work deserves and ‘A’ because the second paper left a lot to be desired, none the less the first and now revision have, if not fineness in form, worth in content. In regards with the use of quotation, while the ideas of the authors are been discussed and are basically the backbone of all the papers, there could have been more of them.

Over all the major faults of the papers have been in grammar and in the slow progress of solidifying and concluding the ideas presented.

Tracking My Errors (Midterm)

In all honesty, I believe that they major problem in my papers so far has been grammar. Be it the initial misplacement of ‘;’ or the abuse of it. The semi-comma has been hunting me down for the last two months, enraging both those who read what I‘ve been writing and that who make corrections, me. Other common mistakes have taken place, more like not taking place, while doing the proofreading, which has been close to none existing for the rough drafts.  This has resulted in atrocious typos, incoherent sentences and overall more work to do later. However, I consider that improvement has been made, perhaps not table turning, jaw dropping ones, but slowly progressive ones, that seem to be sticking for the long wrong. There are many things that I probably have not yet become aware off, but which will certainly get caught in due time, and as with the evil semi comas I’ll try my best to eliminate them permanently. There is always room for improvement and I just hope to make it. Progress.