Writing Center and Reading/Working Log

My visit to the writing center was very comfortable and I communicated nicely with my helper, while working on my literary analysis rough draft. She helped me figure out how I can go through my paper to find mistakes. By reading it out loud instead of in my head, my mind won’t skip over the details. I found and fixed a lot of typos by doing this, as well as improved sentence fluency. By doing this I also found things that were extraneous or out of order that would have made my paper really confusing to read.

My writing fellow also helped me decide whether or not to include several analogies I had written into my essay. I believe I ended up taking most of them out because they were slightly distracting. Most of them only made sense in my head and when I typed them up they seemed really far stretched. She helped discuss the few insecurities I had about things in my paper and either reassured me or helped me improve them. I wasn’t too sure about having my paper follow the plot, but I knew that in order for me to explain my thesis I would have to. When I asked her, she agreed with me and gave me reasons why it would be okay. I walked out of my visit at the writing center, more confident in what I had written so far and sure about what I still needed to work on.

Reading/Working Log

Rereading and annotating LOTF- 1 hour

Reading focus journal- 45 mins

Reading Focus Project- 35 mins

WHAP Textbook- 25 mins