My experience with the Sample student essay was actually fun for me. Sitting on the other side and being able to critique will give you so much insight on just how much work it is to detect what the student did wrong. It was a learning tool for me indeed. I realized just how important it is to be able to tell the difference between a good thesis or bad one, also acknowledging when the student takes a turn in the discussion. when it isn’t relevant anymore. It definitely makes me want to work harder on my next essays thesis and point in the body of the essay. One thing i have become familiar with is being able to point out what is wrong within the format. I’ve used the MLA format so much that i can just see errors if any just by glancing at the essay so that part was not challenging for me. I still feel like i need more work in the thesis part of the essays, and will work more on that. I want to be able to work more on being more specific and inserting quotes from the essay. I was able to print out the assignments and spread it out in front of me so i can be the best critique i can. I learned that following all the directions in the essay will assist you in getting to the flow of your essay.
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Good afternoon, Jenn, I’m glad you were able to have fun during this essay! Me being able to critique the student really made me see how you can easily mess up in essays. The student completely disregarded the part where they need to add a thesis statement, and the essay was all over the place that it confused me. This made me kind of mess up on my essay because I was trying to stick to the outline as well as go paragraph by paragraph from the student sample essay.
Now I know who you are. You are the one and only student who reports that writing this essay was fun!
I really like that. I also appreciate your discussion of how a writer can sometimes lose track of the thesis. That’s when they start going in circles or writing “filler.”