Saturday, July 16, 2011

Reflection on Analysis (RA)

Everyone's thinking it, I'm just saying it...analysis papers are boring!
Usually opinion based papers are a lot more exciting for me.  I thought this paper went well though.  Getting started was definitely a challenge.  I wasn't a huge fan of having to go through and find an article that I like or thought I could analyze well.  That was kind of a struggle.  Once I began though, things went smoothly.  I don't mind rhetorical anylsis papers too bad.  I studied rhetoric a bunch in my senior year English class so usually it's not too hard to spot the tools being used.
On this paper, I tried to channel my focus on the analyzing.  I felt like the whole time I was writing, that's what I was telling myself to pay attention to.  Apparantely it's harder than I thought!  When going in for conferences Chris said, "hey...you need more analysis."  That surprised me since I felt like I was focusing on that the whole time.  I realized the analysis part of the paper can sometimes be underestimated! 
Specifics. Specifics. Specifics.
That's really something we should all focus on the whole time.  In any paper.
The End 

2 comments:

  1. I found it hard to come up with an article to analyze too.

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  2. I agree this paper was really boring! I am glad it is over! Good point!

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