Thursday, March 8, 2007

Real vs Unreal

As I was writing my paper, I quickly realized that achieving 5 pages was going to be hard. I already had a lot of ideas of what to write about, considering how I watch a lot of reality television, but I only got about 3 pages out of it.
I realized that I was looking at the guidelines of the essay too much. Instead of letting my hand just write, I felt like I had to keep double checking to see if I included everything I needed, which ultimately gave me writer's block because I was thinking too much.
At our peer conferences I didn't get much feedback so I got pretty worried about my final draft. I quickly tried to put some sentences together to make my paper longer, fearing I was just babbling. I reread and rewrote my paper for an entire night, the night before my conference with Ellen.
After walking down Woodward for 15 minutes, I finally made it to the meeting and I think the one on one time really helped. I took Ellen's ideas and advice and I really like my paper now. I have a full 5 pages and I'm satisfied with the whole essay.
I would really like one on one time with Ellen next time too, but only if I think I need it. It's good to get peers' advice also, but they're in the same boat I am and sometimes they don't put a lot of thought into their editing, when I really do. I hope my essay will be looked at as very thoughtful because I know a lot of my peers don't think reality t.v. is real.

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