You're writing a letter to yourself, what a loser LOL! I'm just kidding.
- General advice, go to Sweetland as often as possible whether or not you need help with your paper. I guarantee that you will achieve a greater understanding of what you're writing about. It also gives your writing a certain sense of clarity as well.
- Don't write in groups. It makes no sense to do so. Feel free to brainstorm and talk about ideas out loud with others but when it comes to actually writing the paper, lock yourself away and shut out all other distractions. Otherwise you'll find yourself with less time to sleep. And you and I both know you and I both love to sleep. How do know this? Because you and I are the same person.
-Finally don't take three English classes in a single semester. You might like English, but three classes is like three books a week and you start to confuse which themes are with what books and what not and stuff. It gets messy so don't do it.
-As for writing in general, try your best to evolve your paper as you go along. Transitions aren't too bad but they can use a bit of work.
-Important: Work on making your papers exigent. If you forgot what that means, work on figuring the "So What?" of your paper.
Sam,
ReplyDeleteI really like what you wrote about writing papers in groups. Sometimes (who am I kidding, all the time), I come to the CLC to write papers with my fellow peers in that class. I think that it will help me to have them to ask about certain phrases or tell me if my ideas make any sense. The thing about papers, however, is that they aren't supposed to be planned out before the conclusion. They are a journey, a discovery of our own thoughts and ideas. To conference with someone on a paper, then, makes no sense. So what if they do not agree with your point, it is not theirs to make. How would we go about discovering our own thoughts if you are too busy defending other people's? From now on I am going to start writing papers alone, and who knows maybe I will get more sleep too.