blog 14

In highschool i took AP english my junior year, we had to write an extensive research paper comparing Albert Camus' "The Stranger" with Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich." We spent months preparing this essay, it was a comparative essay though, not an exploratory although we did not have to come to an actual conclusion just like it is done in an exploratory essay. We had to do many drafts, and every two weeks we would have a classmate revise our work. Sometimes i even had to revise my paper because after asking a classmate to read it, was not as easily conveying my message as i intended it too. There other strategies though that I have not tried in making my essay more effective. One of these is talking to other writers and getting an idea on what they intend to do with their essays. Call it a lack of trust, but I’m not really eager to try the advice of others if their not teachers. Still I do acknowledge that it could be a very effective form of redrafting a paper and should try it sometime.