#aplitwritingthework

The bish of this project was the into to annotations. I had the  biggest problem with those 2-3 pages. It was hard!!! I feel like I was just repeating myself because I did the general intro first. I found it hard to make a intro paragraph for that certain paper because I just didm't know how to introduce the critics and my response to them. It was and probably is a disaster. I truly sat at the counter for a good few hours just starring at the screen because I was just so brain dead. I don't know what else to say except that it was a real struggle. 

This is me during this project. 

 The general introduction is the most important part of the paper so it puts a lot of pressure on me writing it. At first my thought was how am I going to write a three page paper just on an intro because I have yet to do so. In the beginning of course I was just summarizing the plot but after a little talk with a teacher I realized its more than that a summery. It is everything and anything that I want to say about the book that I didn't have a change to talk to someone about. Plot, writing style, why it is important, what I think. That basically sums up my into, and I am actually really surprised and pleased with myself that is it 4 pages. The idea may be a little choppy from one to another but I think the paper has a wide variety of topics that expresses my excitement for the novel. 

Annotations. This I struggled with a lot.  I was confused on what exactly I was trying to say about my passage. At first I was just summarizing what the passages meant to the book, but that lead me to just have to re-write them. I needed so much help I came and talked to this teacher about it. Then after that I understood what I was doing and that I had all the right elements I just didn't use them in the proper formatting. Instead of searching all through my book to find the perfect quotes I just went on spark notes and looked at their important quotes they had and it worked. I don't know if i can say that or not but that was the honest process. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-iIfi3SNpw 

For the Abstracts part of the project, I did that in the same day as close reads of the critics…. that would make sense wouldn't it? Anyways, I thought that was easy because I just thought of it as a summery of what they said, which is exactly what it was so it was easy. The only hard part about that was, If the critic was talking bout a topic for a few paragraphs or so, you I could summarize that is a few sentences so I had to actuarially read a lot of it to get a full page. Which is also okay because that just gives me more information to do the rest of my paper. I also did the citation wrong, which I always do and that frustrates me a lot, because it is just an annoying thing to have to keep doing over and over.

For a good majority of the project I was very confused and what exactly I was writing about because everything we were doing was not like a normal paper I was used to. But it was also easier than I thought also because I could not image trying to write a 30 page paper on a single topic like why is this novel still around today. The first thing I did was close read the critics that I had to go to the library for. That was nice because for the most part I didn't have to write, just comments here and there with underlying and highlighting. That was an all day process though because I didn't pick short criticisms, the three of them took about all day. But it was worth it because I got some good, interesting knowledge about my novel.