Thursday, April 22, 2010
Final Blog
For my portfolio I am including my Research paper, the Close Reading essay, and the American Lit. essay. I believe that the Close Reading essay is my strongest. I believe that I did a pretty good job in revising to make my analysis better. My argument for this paper was that Krakauer is trying to convince the reader that McCandless left on his adventure because he wanted more out of life. I believe I did a good job supporting this throughout my paper. My weakest paper is probably my American Lit. essay. I think I spend to much time discussing why Engdahl is wrong to say that American literature is isolated and insuler. I need to put more emphasis on why I think American literature is good.
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Yeah, I think to make that essay the strongest, you should stray away from the original prompt and make it your own paper with your own agenda. This actually gives you a purpose to write it instead of just the generic prompt from out first few weeks of class. Add different accounts aside from Engdahl and really revisit your thesis and expand your paper from there. It shouldn't just be to prove Engdahl wrong, but to make a point that American literature is important to the world (or whatever your new point is). That will definitely strengthen your paper and boost the number of pages to be edited for your portfolio!
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