I must start by saying that the writing process this time around was a lot easier for me. Easier because I had a better idea what the writing prices was. In class on thursday, we used a writing-brainstorming activity to further explore our thesis. To be honest in, I felt that the process was pointless and just more work then i needed to do but as I started writing I started thinking and one idea brought me to next. Although I didn’t have a thesis by the end of the activity, it still helped me out in my aim of what I wanted me thesis to be. Over the weekend when I sat down to start my essay, I was stumped on what to write about so I opened up a blank word document and started writing just as we did in class on Thursday. Through this brainstorming process not only did I developed my thesis but I had wrote a big chunk of my introduction paragraph. In conclusion the writing-brainstorming technique was quiet helpful in developing the idea of my essay and I will further use it for future writing assignments to come.

What I am worried about? Im more confident about this paper then any other paper i have written, so its hard to say what I’m worried about. In this paper i actually have a thesis statement, not just something I call a thesis statement which makes me confident in the overall idea of the paper. I used a lot of quotes in this paper and analized them compared to just referring to them briefly or summarizing them, which has been a pervious problem of mine. I am confident about my paper, so I guess that what I’m worried about the most is if I’m right, that this paper is actually well developed and answered the prompt given.

I’d like to think of myself as a good writer. When the time comes to write a paper on a subject, I’m able to manage with little to no difficutly whatsoever. That’s also a problem I have. I can only write about a certain subject or in other words, “summarize”. Ever since high school, thesis papers have been the only kind of assignments that have seriously hurt me academically in english. I just can’t seem to grasp the concept of a thesis and how to make one. At this point in writing it’s just weird and honestly it troubles me. It’s like being placed in Calculus without ever having a firm understanding of multiplication. As for progress, I haven’t started yet.

This paper is a bit different from the last. It is because I have my ideas formulated and I know/understand what I am writing about, or at least going to write about, much better than before. I already have my my introduction and thesis statement written down, but I feel that my thesis could be much better than it is right now. This has been my main problem, writing a really strong thesis, or at least one that I am happy with. This is hard because I am so hard on my writing sometimes that I believe it is never good enough.

Another really strong difficulty I am having, but I believe will be overcome much easier, is finding quotes to fit what I want to say because it is an extensive book, but I feel this will be easy to overcome. I believe that this essay will be challenging but my ideas will flow much better from the last paper so I think that its not going to be too bad.

Writing this paper I feel lost. Where as in the first paper I felt proud of what I was writing, at this point I’m a mixture of tired, confused, and a bit angry. I don’t know why but I just can’t seem to get anything going.

I have somehow gotten 4 pages, but I’m not sure how good those 4 pages are. It’s really frustrating but hopefully with some peer review my paper can turn into something good.

i am going crazy about this essy. i dont like essays, especially if its over one page. (yes i know, im very lazy when it comes to writing. im more of a practical person when it comes to activities. i just get restless when it comes to sitting down for over an hour and thinking about how annoying and tedious writing can be. but enough about ranting, ill talk about my thesis.

I feel like stating in my thesis how rebecca skloot gives herself too much glory in the fact that she kind of personifies herself as the hero of the story. i would also talk about how deception is a big factor. the main theme would be about deception, not heroism. Although i woud mention that Skloot treats heself as a hero, i will concentrate more on how she indirectlly glorifies herself as the person who “saved” Henrietta Lacks from being an insignificant being instead of letting her become some nameless patient who died of cancer.

I think the fact that im typing this late shows how much im struggling with college right now. The next week alone there are so many assignments and so much work i have to do im strongly considering dropping a class just so i can get this essay done. I have a general idea  of what i want to write about but im still trying to finish the book. Theres just so much on my plate right now im not exactly sure how ill get it all done. I thinking dropping my science class would give me  enough time in the morning to get sleep and to start working on my english paper. Im not dure how im going to structure it but i feel like having more time andbless work would help me sort out howill get this paper done.

With the rough draft due date coming up in 2 days i havent even started on mine, ive been busy studying for the bio midterm as well as the math midterm that are both going to be within a week from today. I have an idea of what my thesis will be but thats about it. Im planning to make my thesis contradict the standard view which is “deception is bad” and show how altho deception is considered wrong and is frowned upon by society, it is also in many cases necesary. Other then that basic idea i have no clue how to tackle this essay and if its even possible with all the other midterms coming up.

This paper, unlike the first, has me feeling somewhat confident because i can clearly see an answer and a topic to write about and when we wrote the thesis in class one came to mind immediately. I did the same thing last time and that didn’t turn out so well though so we’ll see how this goes. This one will be better though, and the assignment is more clear cut.

I think that the only real problem I’m going to have with this paper is length. I’ve never been very good at putting detail into my writing as I’m more of a straight to the point kind of guy. I just hope that I dont panic midway through and start throwing useless details and all matter of fluff to make the paper longer.

I do need a hero…to help me with this upcoming essay. Now, I am not entirely new to this whole long essay writing thanks to my Junior English teacher (Shout-out :)) And it’s so funny and deja-vu like because he had us focus on writing an essay about heroism from a book too! Of course I lost this essay so no help there but I was introduced to this whole “Hero Circle-of-Fun System” before. So when Professor Kaufman first proposed the original hero essay question a light bulb went off in my head, now these light bulbs are not always that bright meaning that if you are not me then there is a huge chance that you will laugh at my light bulb which to each its own so whatever. You know how the examples of who the hero is to you was given. Well I thought that a much longer essay could be written analyzing who the hero’s are to each individual person. See, I feel that since everyone is there own individual and everyone thinks differently there is bound to be some difference in the thought process of who is a hero. And, I think that it would be interesting to see through how an individual views the issue or states their point of view influences who they think is a hero.

I am a little hesitant about my thought process because I don’t know if anyone will like it especially the person grading it. And after hearing other people’s theses I’m just like “Damn, that’s deep.” I can’t come up with things like that. And I might be wrong in the way I think. I guess I’ll just have to bear my teeth, write that essay, and wait and see.