Paper 1 Reflection

Writing paper number 1 was somewhat of a challenge for me. I couldn’t exactly fit what I actually felt to go with the topic and had difficulty coming up with ideas that went along with it. Up until after turning in the second draft and having the teacher conference I pretty much knew my paper was terrible. If I had turned it in as it was it would be returned to be with a D grade at best. However after the conference, where I was told that I could bend the topic to allow me to express what I wanted to say, I felt that I would be able to write a much more accurate and “attention grabbing” paper. After that it felt like it was all downhill (despite the fact that I only had four days after my conference to rewrite the paper) and my thoughts came relatively quickly. Now I know that I don’t have to stick to the topic as hard as I did on the first two drafts in my next essays. Hopefully, very very hopefully, I do extremely well on this paper and all the other ones that are yet to come.