So first of all, let me start out by saying that whenever we have an assignment due for English RA1 class, I usually do not do it until the night before (yeah that is not a good idea). But for some reason the thought of a five to six paged essay made me change my ways which is really interesting because procrastination was my favorite thing since who knows when. Well, our last assignment, the “short” five to six paged essay (“short” should not be the term used to describe that essay) was my first real non-procrastinating assignment, and I was surprised by the result at the end.
So I knew about this essay a long time ago, but did not really bother to work on it, until I actually read the assignment from our course reader. that is when I knew I had to stop being lazy and start working on the first draft. So a little over five days before the assignment was due, I sat infront of my computer ready to being the essay. But when I was about to start writing, my mind went completely blank and that reflected on my paper. After starting at the computer screen for about 30 minutes, I knew I needed help on the essay, and my best source was our teacher.
Then my next task was to set up an appointment date with her, and after two days of waiting (one day before the actual assignment was due), I went to 400 wheeler, and started talking to Natalia about the essay. And even though I had almost three pages typed up the night before, after my discussion with Natalia (a very long discussion indeed that lasted almost two hours), I had a better idea about what to write, and that night (Thursday night), I wrote the last two pages, made some changes and was ready to read the essay to my classmates.
But when I listened to my fellow classmates’ essays, I was so afraid of reading my essay because I knew it was nothing compared to their (yeah that made me feel bad). But my group did not care about the fact that I didn’t want to read my essay, so I was forced to read it. And to my surprise, they told me a lot of positive things about my essay, and gave me tons of ideas on how to make the essay better (THANK YOU SO MUCH). I was so happy after we were done doing the peer revision because I got so many good pointers on how to develop my essay to make it better.
So the point of me rambling about my essay writing process is the fact that if anyone ever gets stuck or is having a hard time with an assignment, I think the best idea is to go get help. I know everyone tells you to go get help, but trust me, it does help when you can understand something after someone explains it to you (at least it does for me). So everyone should make some effort to get help if they are ever stuck on anything. I am not saying, bombard Natalia with two hour discussion session (Opps) but if anything does not make sense, you should always make use of all the resources provided to you.
IN CONCLUSION, IF I CAN GO GET HELP, SO CAN YOU!!!!
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i know it is not my week to comment, but i was really intrigued by your post, and i really liked it. It helps to hear that kind of stuff from a fellow student! And I can relate, the difference is that I did not look at the assignment until thursday night and did not get help.
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