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After re-reading my paper, what stood out the most to me was a problem stemming from my thesis: the Empire City Massacre was a in fact a hoax, not a piece of satire. Beginning with my thesis and going into the … Continue reading →

I went and corrected some improper use of quotations. I had never really cited something that hadn’t come from a text, so I was unfamiliar with the rules of punctuation. When there is no parenthetical citation, the punctuation goes INSIDE … Continue reading →

For this first revision I decided to focus on my essay with a ‘zoomed out’ perspective. I believe it will be a more effective revision if I first spot out any major structural issues, continuing with the revision process by … Continue reading →

For my revisions, I primarily focused on grammar, sentences structure, and fluidity of my paper. As was previously pointed out in the comments for the paper, those three things needed to be addressed and revised. Looking back, I noticed a … Continue reading →

A challenging aspect of analytical writing has always been organization. In this paper, I found it hard to separate each idea into clear-cut categorized paragraphs. I found that I repeated alike ideas in different paragraphs that could have been more … Continue reading →

Before I read through my first essay and started my revisions for Paper 1, I read through the comments on my essay and used that as a starting point. In some paragraphs, I strayed too far from the topic sentence … Continue reading →

I have mostly focused on my paragraph about author/publication credibility.  This paragraph was somewhat weak because I was mixing author credibility with New York Magazine‘s credibility. The author credibility was not really related to the ideas of credibility, because I really … Continue reading →

My main revisions were cutting my quotes, fixing grammar, and adding more analysis that flowed logically. Before my quote was: “[Jason Russell]: Our goal is to change the conversation of our culture and get people to ask, “Who is Joseph … Continue reading →

Just by rereading my first paper this weekend, I can tell how much we have learned this semester about analysis since we first turned in those papers. I can clearly point out poorly worded statements and sentences that do not … Continue reading →