Semester 1: Personal Writing Goals
- I will honor my thesis and make all my ideas come together. They will flow nicely and all be listed. An example of a bad thesis from my literary analysis essay is: " Henry David Thoreau lived his life in many different ways. The two ways you can split them up into is living in his mind and living in the outside world." A refined version of this is: Thoreau was a man of integrity as he truly lived his beliefs, transcending the physical world to achieve a heightened state of begin".
- I shall use more specific and precise word choice to clarify my ideas and topics. A example of bad word choice and flow is : "In henry's writing (Civil Disobedience) he talks a lot about what makes you just in the world". A more refined streamlined piece of this writing is: " In Civil Disobedience Thoreau writes about what makes one just in the world"
- I shall connect my writing to the topics that I use. For example in my literary analysis essay I wrote: " In the play The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail Henry is talking to Waldo about casting a vote on an issue in America about the Mexican American war. A better writing of this is : In The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail Henry talks to Waldo about casting a vote on the Mexican American war which Henry does not cast a vote in the end"