The in-class reverse outline review gave me a lot of insight on my paper, there were a lot of things that I skipped over because I didn’t know how to get my ideas out. I notice that I make a lot of general statements and I don’t bring in enough examples from the novel or I don’t explain why the examples are important enough to look at. I have issues with looking for the bigger ideas sometimes. This reverse outline allowed me to look at my paper with critical eyes and see where I need to improve or make changes.
The person who reviewed my writing showed me that there are a few points in my paper that I could go into further detail with. They pointed out that I needed to figure out the problem I am addressing and that I should make the thesis clearer. I have a topic that I am focused on but I don’t have the big “so what” factor yet. The examples that I use are good but I don’t show why they are important to the paper or how they follow with the topic/thesis. In my redraft I hope to make the key ideas clear and cohesive, as well as making the thesis stronger. I want the problem to be easy to pin point.
I actually had a similar problem with my thesis. My thesis was very confusing and the wording of it was incomprehensible. I also struggled to answer the “so what?” question at the end of my paper which I still am working on.