I started in on my essay and half way thorough the first paragraph, where I talked about the vanilla hive, I was gasping for air. I had to stop and breathe for a moment. Mark that spot, that is definitely a problem with the flow! When you can’t breath it is most obviously a flow problem. Bad essays can suffocate, beware.
I did not like having to print out a copy of my essay for the reader to mark on. I felt like it was unnecessary. Instant changes are possible with computers. It was easy to try something new, read it, and see if it works. You can’t do this with a paper draft. I saved each draft of my essay on the computer, and I can show how it progresses just as well as someone who has saved all their paper drafts.
This activity made evident bad parts of my essay. They were parts that made sense in my head, but out loud they were terrible mess ups. The written word is meant to convey information. It was obvious where I wasn’t conveying information clearly, and I got suggestions on how I could. I learned that the more I work on an essay the better it fulfills requirements and engages the reader. I would recommend this method to everyone, and I am going to work through all my writing in this manner. It is like getting your paper graded once, and then getting it back and being able to change all the wrong parts, then hand it back in for a better grade.
