Essay #1 Reflection
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I chose this meme because this is how I felt writing an essay. I know what I will write, but then I see the time or realize the time I have left. The stages go from “I’m confident” to “Oh, this is kind of hard,” which progresses into “Okay, I have a decent amount of time left” to “I have 10 minutes left”. I had positive progress from the rough draft to the final paper. I could’ve done better on the draft, so I fixed whatever was needed in the last piece to prove that I could do better than the rough draft. I feel happy with how the final draft came out. I accomplished all my goals and am confident about essay number 2.
While writing this essay, I learned more about my writing process. I get more distracted if I have more time because I don’t have to have it in yet. Being distracted can cause me to lose sight of what I’m doing and will make me do an essay last minute, and it wouldn’t be the best it can be. The meme shows my writing process when writing an essay, from being confident to freaking out because I have ten minutes left to submit 1,000 words. Having little time can make me freak out, which will have me not do the best I can do. I want to change my writing process because I don’t want to keep stressing out last minute about an essay I’ve known about for weeks. The rough draft does help me process it earlier, but in the end, I always complete the final piece last minute.
