Final Reflection
Looking back to the beginning of the semester, I feel that I have come a long way with my writing, and this piece exemplifies my improvement perfectly. The first thing I put on my to-do list was to improve the organization in my writing. For past essays, I had trouble finding a thesis that is supported by my entire piece. I would write a thesis and change the argument without changing the thesis, so by the end of the paper I would be contradicting the beginning of the essay. With this final project, however, I was able to take one thesis and modify it to apply it not only to the course of one paper, but keep the focus into the next one. I chose these pieces to combine because they show how I’ve developed the ability to maintain a solid argument.
In the final essay, I talk about the concept that every written work is an intertextual remediation, and the essay itself is a reference to two other works, remediated into one. The two essays I combined were thematically similar. In fact, the second essay was written as an extension of the first, going into more detail, and taking the idea of intertextuality into the medium of film.
With this project, I really focused on use of digital tools for revision. The revised project consists of large segments from two previous essays. A significant portion of the essay is directly ripped from other works. This is a task that would be difficult, if not impossible, without the use of a word processing program on a computer. This only emphasizes some of the points in my essay more strongly.
At times, I feel that I could still work on sentence structure. I used complicated sentences, which occasionally confuse the writer. This is another point I’ve worked on in this final project, but I hope to improve on it more in the future.
