Wk 8 - Improving my Lit Snap!

I think my writing has improved a lot better for my Lit Snap paper. Here are some reasons I think I can gather the paper easier. Today, I had to meet with Stephanie for a conference in her office for a second sitting to go over my paper. She thought I did an overall pretty good job on it, but it wasn’t “well-developed” like she assumed. So we sat down and went over each paragraph and found my easy, common mistakes. The mistakes I thought were right and they were completely out of proportion. She said I was just telling my audience about what the book was about, and not expressing how I feel for what has happened in the book. It was pretty complicated for my part to do this, because it’s easier for me to write up what has happened in a book, than say how I feel about so and so. I do realize it does get out of hand when a writer just writes what has happened in the book and not show how they feel. It’s like they are writing up a huge book just about what happened and not showing a feeling. I tend to repeat lines and it gets frustrating to think of new options for that given sentence. I did outlining for this paper when it was assigned, and it helped out a lot, but Stephanie helped me out a ton by breaking it down in sections and giving details and better supporting sentences to each paragraph. I love the way she told me to do it this way because it seemed a whole heck a lot easier than what I did and also saved a little time. As we were progressing through each paragraph, I felt so much more comfortable with the paper being put together easily. After each main idea in the paragraphs, I was coming up with many supporting details and kept thinking of more and more as we went through the paper. I was really amazed I thought of those there and not when I did the lit snap in the first place. I guess that is normal because a paper like this was on my chest for a while and you just want to get it out of the way. I tend to freeze up when I write papers, but everyone is like that when they aren’t used to writing. I’m hoping I can use that outlining process for the next drafts we do this semester by progressing my writing skills and techniques, and become a better writer