Editing this paper shows to be a bit of a struggle. Like Bianca mentioned, its difficult to me to write essays that are too open-ended. As much as I love creativity and the ability to basically create my own ideas; to create a thesis for such a reading like “The Fire Next Time” was pretty difficult. I picked the reading because I could somewhat relate and it wasn’t too difficult to interpret the main idea, however it was a struggle to do deep close-readings. After seeing peer reviews and Professor Kaufman’s revisions, I saw that I have to delve much deeper into the quote and dig out the true meanings-I have to analyze further than just the surface.
When I first started revising, I contemplated completely changing my reading selection and going with “Cafeteria” because I liked it a lot more than the reading I chose but I think I’ll stick with what I have. My main issue/concern right now is creating a legitimate thesis-one that really shows the reader my point of view of the reading and making sure my analysis of the quotes really reflects on my main point. My essay right now is still pretty “rough” but Professor Kaufman really helped steer me in the right direction. I see that one of the overall problems I have is answering the “So What?” I just know that more can be done with this paper and I’m slowly but surely getting there.