My strategy to making my essay better this time is to plan out what I’m going to write about before I start writing. I think this will help me think of different things first before I just put a bunch of thoughts onto one paper. My goal for this essay is to put down what I think is best, and then write about those things. Then once I do that I think that if I can read through it and make changes, my essay would be well put together. Some steps that I will take to reach this goal is to start out by like I said making a plan for an essay. I will write on a separate sheet of paper my own ideas about the essay topic. Writing this will help me because it will make me think about what I thought about this essay had to do with, then I can compare what it really is. My biggest challenge is trying to finds things to talk about that I haven’t already started to talk about or even put into another essay. I think that I sometimes try to find different topics to talk about but then they all come together into the same thing, and I end up talking about the same things over and over again. This is a big challenge because my essay just loops around to each topic, and I think that it should at least have something different within each paragraph. Even though the essay goes together, I just think that making each topic sentence or claim different and saying different things would make the essay much better. If I run into a big problem I would go see Amy my writing lab teacher, or I would email my english professor.
I think you have a good goal and plain you can used your brainstorming skills and different techniques and be able to develop ideas by that.
I think it’s a great thing that you have identified that you work better when you start with a plan. I think knowing what strategies work best for you is a HUGE accomplishment and something to celebrate.
Great work!