Friday, October 9, 2009
Question of the Week (10/9/09)
As you finish your opinion paper on Antigone, discuss how your writing has transformed from raw idea to finished piece. For example, some people start with an outline of ideas or topics they wish to target in their paper, while others begin by selecting quotes from the text to support their argument. Reflect on your writing process and write about what worked and what didn't with regard to your writing of this paper. Post by Monday 10/12 for full credit. Enjoy your long weekend.
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In the beginning, I started out with a bunch of quotes that I wanted to use throughout my writing. Then, I added some little points for each of the sides (Haimon and Creon ), to use in the essay. Next, I clumped some of the related arguments and quotes together to begin forming my essay, then I put in details and rearranged things so the essay would read better. Finally, I edited the whole thing.
ReplyDeleteI thought this method of writing worked pretty well for me. I got to make sure that all my ideas would be used, and organize my arguments. All I had left to add was detail, an introduction and conclusion, and other little things. I thought it made things easier for me.
One thing I didn't like about the process, in the end, was that it didn't leave a lot of space for the connection to present-day time. I had to squeeze that in somewhere along the way. However, overall, I liked the method I used to write my Antigone opinion paper. I might use it again for a different essay.
At first I just wrote my paper from scratch. No written ideas or outlines, I just sat at my computer and wrote. Then I went back and wrote down my main idea on a piece of paper. Underneath the main idea, I wrote three subtopics, which would be my supporting paragraphs. I added more detail and support to my main idea in each paragraph after that, which improved it a lot.
ReplyDeleteI thought that this process of many drafts worked well. Each time I went back and looked at my drafts and added something to it, which made my paper come together as a whole. It gave me a chance to organize my paper much more that it would if I just had done one draft.
The method of having many drafts and peer reviewing really helped my paper come together as a whole. I think that it worked well and made my paper the best it could be.
I started out with a list of the conflicts between two of the charecter and then started to build my paper around that. I typed out the basic ideas and then later on I added supporting details and quotes from the text to the ideas that I had. Eventually the essay to take shape and it got better and better as I tweaked and added different things along the way.
ReplyDeleteI also think that the drafts and the peer review worked really well. It helps to get others opinons on your work so you know what to improve on and what to change. It helped the process of editing the rough draft move along alot better than if we did the revieing on our own.
When I started writing my essay, I made a plan of the main idea and the body paragraphs. I then chose quotes from the text to support the body paragraphs. I wrote the essay around the quotes, and it started out pretty well. When we did the peer editing, it really helped me understand how people looked at my essay. I learned all of the little problems that people didn't understand in my plot, and it helped me edit my final paper. I thought that it made writing the paper a lot easier by having it mapped out beforehand, too.
ReplyDeleteWhen I began writing my opinion paper, it was mainly just a jumbled bunch of things I wanted to incorporate into my writing for the final. One thing I always do when I am writing is make four drafts. My first draft is practically always teacher assigned. In english a first draft is usually required. Then I have at least three people read it. Sometimes friends, parents, or in this case peers. I then go on to make my second draft a list. With my main idea or focal point for each paragraph. I spend time adding parts of my first draft that I think are important and I copy and paste them into my second draft under the topic where they fit best. Once I've taken every good piece of my first draft, I add quotes and examples that support my paper. The second and Third draft go hand in hand, because the second draft is just a layout for my third. The third draft stands high above the first, it uses better vocabulary and a wider range of ideas. The third draft is basically what the teacher sees as the second draft. The fourth draft is the final. It uses input from all my other drafts, its much fuller and smoother writing and I have my dad read it and make any last corrections. So technically there is sometimes a fifth draft, but usually four is enough.
ReplyDeleteThis time with Antigone, I am just finishing my fifth draft because I saw room for improvement . I think I have come far from my jumbled first draft.
I started out with the conflict of Haimon vs. Creon, and I based my paragraphs on a intro, Haimon's argument, Creon's argument, and finally the conclusion. I then went back to the book and found quotes to support each side. When writing, I usually don't follow a format, yet this time I tried to make my paper clear and concise by following an outline. This improved my paper and saved me a lot of time.
ReplyDeleteI started out by making a list of the points Creon and Haimon each made, and built ideas off of that. I found quotes by looking for a sentence one said that summed up their argument.
ReplyDeleteI thought it worked pretty well but i had some trouble coming up with my main idea, and also connections between then and modern times
I started by writing an outline of what all of my paragraphs were going to be about. Then, I put them in the order that i found best to support my argument. I found 1-2 quotes that supported each paragraph and incorporated them in the smoothest way. Writing out the contents of my writing beforehand worked well for me, but I should have planned the Introduction and Conclusion of my paper better, so winging it didn't work well for me at all. I lacked a lot of detail and I often repeated myself in those two paragraphs. I think if I perfect my outline in the future, I will have a better more accurate paper.
ReplyDeleteI also started by first writing an outline on what I thought i would write about. Then I started adding points in which I wanted to prove. Then I finally got my paragraphs. Then I just kept adding to the paragraphs, made sure I clearly stated what i was trying to prove in each paragraph. Then lastly i added quotes to my paragraphs.
ReplyDeleteI stated writing my paper by first selecting quotes from the story, and then by putting my opinion on what was currently going on in the story at that moment. I chose to write my paper on Antigone vs Ismene, and I had many opinions between them, like that Ismene should listen to her sister, and my just do whatever she wants. The characters in this play make may irrational decisions, and if they take a look at the big picture as the chorus or Choragos does, then they will see what is happening, and what they should do based on that.
ReplyDeleteIn my paper, I didn't start with the introduction. I started by putting the main paragraphs and the main points of the paper, and then filled in the rest around that. I listed what Antigone was doing, what Ismene was doing, and then what I thought should have happened, who was right and who was wrong, and discussed some of the other main important ideas from the book.