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In the beginning I was so perplexed of what was expected for this paper. I figured that many hours were to be involved in order to write it, but I didn’t know if was going to be extremely difficult to start it. During the process of revising with our fellow peers in our class, I noticed that everything I came to write wasn’t very well or accepted. My ideas seemed a bit out of order and I have a bad tendency of repeating myself a lot, for some reason. Writing isn’t one of my strongest subjects. When handling school, science and math seem to flourish in my head, while English seems to be a lagging subject that I cannot comprehend, even though I try and try to understand. It is especially hard to get my thoughts on paper in a logical, analyzing, non-research mode.

Through the process or revising, my understanding for the short stories changed a lot. I thought I had a perfect, logical thesis going on, when in reality, I probably didn’t know what I was talking about due to the fact that many of my readers were confused about what I wrote. My readers suggested that I re-look at certain parts of the story in order to strengthen specific areas of my essay, which I did. I figured many more ideas to mention in my paper due to this rereading. So through the revising of my groups, I figured many things in my essay were not strong. Thus, by reading the stories again, I came to understand them more, which apparently helped me greatly on my midterm =). Through my own drafting and revising, I couldn’t really understand that my paper didn’t really explain well what I meant to portray about the stories. The whole process helped me understand things I couldn’t comprehend alone, but I still had difficulties in presenting my ideas on paper. I can understand something so well, but I always have the difficulty of writing about it for some reason.

I loved the whole process of revising with the students and I also loved how meticulous we had to be with our papers by using the revising process the professor showed us. It made me see themes in the story I didn’t see the first time I read them. I also appreciated the stories more. For some reason I enjoy reading stories from the 1800s now, due to their horrid depiction. It is creepy to see how the minds of these authors were back then, but like the second topic, it made their ideas quite interesting to read.